Architecture and the Mimetic Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and the Mimetic Self write by Lucy Huskinson. This book was released on 2018-02-02. Architecture and the Mimetic Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful theoretical guide to our unconscious behaviour in relation to buildings, and explains both how and why we are drawn to specific elements and features of architectural design. It reveals how even the most uninspiring of buildings can be modified to meet our unconscious expectations and requirements of them—and, by the same token, it explores the repercussions for our wellbeing when buildings fail to do so. Criteria for effective architectural design have for a long time been grounded in utilitarian and aesthetic principles of function, efficiency, cost, and visual impact. Although these are important considerations, they often fail to meet the fundamental needs of those who inhabit and use buildings. Misconceptions are rife, not least because our responses to architecture are often difficult to measure, and are in large part unconscious. By bridging psychoanalytic thought and architectural theory, Architecture and the Mimetic Self frees the former from its preoccupations with interpersonal human relations to address the vital relationships that we establish with our nonhuman environments. In addition to providing a guide to the unconscious behaviours that are most relevant for evaluating architectural design, this book explains how our relationships with the built environment inform a more expansive and useful psychoanalytic theory of human relationship and identity. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists, architects, and all who are interested in the overlaps of psychology, architecture, and the built environment.
Mimetic Architecture
Mimetic Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimetic Architecture write by . This book was released on 2015. Mimetic Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Architects & Mimetic Rivalry
Architects & Mimetic Rivalry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architects & Mimetic Rivalry write by René Girard. This book was released on 2012. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cause of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what Ren Girard has called mimetic rivalry. Architects & Mimetic Rivalry is a discussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today.
Origins of Architectural Pleasure
Origins of Architectural Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of Architectural Pleasure write by Grant Hildebrand. This book was released on 1999-06-30. Origins of Architectural Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This engaging study discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing--and useful for survival--from ancient times to the present. 119 photos. 6 line figures.
The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment
The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment write by Samir Younes. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city. When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase in number and intensity of such arguments threatens to destabilize the very grounds upon which judgment is supposed to rest, this book examines architectural judgment in its historical, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions and their convergence on that most expressive part of architecture, namely: architectural character. It stresses the value of reasoned judgment in justifying architectural form -a judgment based on three sets of criteria: those criteria that are external to architecture, those that are internal to architecture, and those that pertain to the psychology of the architect as image-maker. External criteria include, philosophies of history or theories of modernity; internal criteria include architectural character and architectural composition; while the psychological criteria pertain to 'mimetic rivalry', or rivaling desires for the same architectural forms. Yet, although architectural conflicts can adversely influence judgment, they can at the same time, contribute to the advancement of architectural culture.
