The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & PracticesThis jargon-free guide to design and architecture theory helps professionals engage in the discourse of where and what architecture is, and has been. |
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Page 94
For example, Louis Kahn's appeal to letting a building (and material too) be 'what
it wants to be' is wedded to the notion that there is an inherent quality in a
building task that, given appropriate nurturance and the right sensibility by the ...
For example, Louis Kahn's appeal to letting a building (and material too) be 'what
it wants to be' is wedded to the notion that there is an inherent quality in a
building task that, given appropriate nurturance and the right sensibility by the ...
Page 98
If method is imagined as a 'louvered window' into the task, then its transparency
and alignment are crucial. Any misalignment and the whole task may be missed,
any opacity and only parts of the task will be discerned. Method, then, becomes ...
If method is imagined as a 'louvered window' into the task, then its transparency
and alignment are crucial. Any misalignment and the whole task may be missed,
any opacity and only parts of the task will be discerned. Method, then, becomes ...
Page 237
The implication of this has been that the order for any design task exists in the
mediation between the designer and that task, and that it develops as an
understanding of the task and the self develops. Adjustments made to whatever
ordering ...
The implication of this has been that the order for any design task exists in the
mediation between the designer and that task, and that it develops as an
understanding of the task and the self develops. Adjustments made to whatever
ordering ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THEORETICAL POSITIONS | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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| Title | The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & Practices |
| Author | Paul Alan Johnson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0442013442, 9780442013448 |
| Length | 486 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / General Architecture / History / General Architecture / Reference |
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