An Architecture of Place
Topology in Practice
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-32232-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-32232-2 (ISBN)
Challenging mainstream architecture’s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea’s centrality to be rediscovered or considered for the first time. It is essential reading for practitioners, clients, educators, and students—in architecture and all spatial disciplines.
Challenging mainstream architecture’s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea’s centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
Rigorous but not dense, practical but not trivialising, the book unfolds on three fronts. First, it clearly frames the pertinent aspects of topology—the philosophy of place—importantly differentiating two concepts that architecture regularly conflates: place and space. Second, it rejects the ubiquitous notion that architecture “makes place” and, instead, reasons that place is what makes architecture and the built environment possible; that place “calls” for and to architecture; and that architecture is thus invited to “listen” and respond. Finally, it turns to the matter of designing responses that result not just in more places of architecture (demanding little of design), nor merely in architecture with some “sense of place” (demanding little more), but, rising above those, responses that constitute an architecture of place (demanding the greatest vigilance but offering the utmost freedom).
Opening up a term regarded as so common that its meaning is seldom considered, the author reveals the actual depth and richness of place, its innateness to architecture, and its essentiality to practitioners, clients, educators, and students—including those in all spatial disciplines.
Challenging mainstream architecture’s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea’s centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
Rigorous but not dense, practical but not trivialising, the book unfolds on three fronts. First, it clearly frames the pertinent aspects of topology—the philosophy of place—importantly differentiating two concepts that architecture regularly conflates: place and space. Second, it rejects the ubiquitous notion that architecture “makes place” and, instead, reasons that place is what makes architecture and the built environment possible; that place “calls” for and to architecture; and that architecture is thus invited to “listen” and respond. Finally, it turns to the matter of designing responses that result not just in more places of architecture (demanding little of design), nor merely in architecture with some “sense of place” (demanding little more), but, rising above those, responses that constitute an architecture of place (demanding the greatest vigilance but offering the utmost freedom).
Opening up a term regarded as so common that its meaning is seldom considered, the author reveals the actual depth and richness of place, its innateness to architecture, and its essentiality to practitioners, clients, educators, and students—including those in all spatial disciplines.
Randall S. Lindstrom, PhD, is an architect, author, and teacher. Practising since 1978, he has served clients on four continents and received numerous professional awards. In 2011, his focus shifted to academic pursuits at the University of Tasmania, where he is Adjunct Researcher in Architecture and Design. Previous publications include Kenosis Creativity Architecture (Routledge, 2021).
1.What Place Is Not—and What It Is 2. Dwelling—and Building—in Place 3. Horizon, Place, and World 4. The Call of Place 5. Listening to Place and Readying for Response 6. When Place Calls for Architecture 7. “Originality” and an Architecture of Place
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 26 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-32232-2 / 1032322322 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-32232-2 / 9781032322322 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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