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In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries
within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments
such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of
the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so
too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive
abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological
breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life
expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to
improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments.
This poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural
theory... This is the first book to consider these new scientific
and humanistic models in architectural terms. Constructed as a
series of five essays around the themes of beauty, culture,
emotion, the experience of architecture, and artistic play, this
book draws upon a broad range of discussions taking place in
philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, and anthropology,
and in doing so questions what implications these discussions hold
for architectural design. Drawing upon a wealth of research,
Mallgrave argues that we should turn our focus away from the
objectification of architecture (treating design as the creation of
objects) and redirect it back to those for whom we design: the
people inhabiting our built environments.
- Presents novel framing of contemporary problems of design -
Includes historical examples drawn from every continent and time
period - Proposes specific reforms - Richly illustrated with over
80 black and white images
- Presents novel framing of contemporary problems of design -
Includes historical examples drawn from every continent and time
period - Proposes specific reforms - Richly illustrated with over
80 black and white images
In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries
within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments
such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of
the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so
too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive
abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological
breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life
expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to
improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments.
This poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural
theory... This is the first book to consider these new scientific
and humanistic models in architectural terms. Constructed as a
series of five essays around the themes of beauty, culture,
emotion, the experience of architecture, and artistic play, this
book draws upon a broad range of discussions taking place in
philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, and anthropology,
and in doing so questions what implications these discussions hold
for architectural design. Drawing upon a wealth of research,
Mallgrave argues that we should turn our focus away from the
objectification of architecture (treating design as the creation of
objects) and redirect it back to those for whom we design: the
people inhabiting our built environments.
The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public
housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for
the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he
edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund and led an
articulate and well-orchestrated campaign in support of the Modern
Movement. A friend and colleague of Lewis Mumford, he immigrated in
1934 to the United States where he taught courses on city planning
and housing at Dartmouth College and the University of
Buffalo.
This book--Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the
precursor to Modern Building--presents a revisionist concept of
style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Here,
Behrendt calls for architects to return to basic geometries and to
articulate explicitly the new social and economic realities. Now
available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise
boldly advocates international modernism to the general public.
Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the
nineteenth century. From his first published essay on Greek
polychromy in 1834 to his final lecture on the origin of
architectural styles in 1869, Semper persistently endeavoured to
fashion a comprehensive architectural theory explaining the meaning
and transformational nature of architectural form. The breadth and
richness of his ideas, both applauded and opposed at the turn of
the twentieth century, proved enormously influential in the
development of modern theory. Originally published in 1989, this
book provides an English translation of a number of Semper's
published writings. The introduction seeks to trace the course of
Semper's theoretical development over thirty-five years. Semper's
ideas, like those of his contemporaries, John Ruskin and Eugene
Viollet-le-Duc, had enormous influence on the genesis of modern
architectural theory and will appeal to both architectural
historians and architects.
Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about
architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields
of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make
a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural
design. Today, the sciences have granted us the tools to help us
understand better than ever before the precise ways in which the
built environment can affect the building user's individual
experience. Through an understanding of these tools, architects
should be able to become better designers, prioritizing the
experience of space - the emotional and aesthetic responses, and
the sense of homeostatic well-being, of those who will occupy any
designed environment. In From Object to Experience, Mallgrave goes
further, arguing that it should also be possible to build an
effective new cultural ethos for architectural practice. Drawing
upon a range of humanistic and biological sources, and emphasizing
the far-reaching implications of new neuroscientific discoveries
and models, this book brings up-to-date insights and theoretical
clarity to a position that was once considered revolutionary but is
fast becoming accepted in architecture.
Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about
architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields
of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make
a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural
design. Today, the sciences have granted us the tools to help us
understand better than ever before the precise ways in which the
built environment can affect the building user's individual
experience. Through an understanding of these tools, architects
should be able to become better designers, prioritizing the
experience of space - the emotional and aesthetic responses, and
the sense of homeostatic well-being, of those who will occupy any
designed environment. In From Object to Experience, Mallgrave goes
further, arguing that it should also be possible to build an
effective new cultural ethos for architectural practice. Drawing
upon a range of humanistic and biological sources, and emphasizing
the far-reaching implications of new neuroscientific discoveries
and models, this book brings up-to-date insights and theoretical
clarity to a position that was once considered revolutionary but is
fast becoming accepted in architecture.
Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a
comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe
and the United States, during three centuries of development. In
this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural
discourse within its social and political context. He explores the
philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the
relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most
importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as
they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines
the compelling currents of French rationalist and British
empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the
Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates
of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern
theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval
of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many
assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new
dimensions of the debates about modernism.
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