Architecture of the Absurd - 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 of the Absurd write by John Silber. This book was released on 2007. Architecture of the Absurd available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In his twenty-five years as President of Boston University, Dr. Silber oversaw a building program totaling more than 13 million square feet. Here he constructs an unflinching case, beautifully illustrated, against the worst trends in contemporary architecture. He challenges architects to derive creative satisfaction from meeting the practical needs of clients and the public. He urges the directors of our universities, symphony orchestras, museums, and corporations to stop financing inefficient, overpriced architecture, and calls on clients and the public to tell the emperors of our skylines that their pretensions cannot hide the naked absurdity of their designs."--BOOK JACKET.
Allan Wexler
Allan Wexler - 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 Allan Wexler write by Allan Wexler. This book was released on 2017-01. Allan Wexler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories--abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places--this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler's multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.
The Architecture of Bathing
The Architecture of Bathing - 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 Architecture of Bathing write by Christie Pearson. This book was released on 2020-10-06. The Architecture of Bathing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.
Architecture for Astronauts
Architecture for Astronauts - 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 for Astronauts write by Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger. This book was released on 2011-10-18. Architecture for Astronauts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living and working in extra-terrestrial habitats means being potentially vulnerable to very harsh environmental, social, and psychological conditions. With the stringent technical specifications for launch vehicles and transport into space, a very tight framework for the creation of habitable space is set. These constraints result in a very demanding “partnership” between the habitat and the inhabitant. This book is the result of researching the interface between people, space and objects in an extra-terrestrial environment. The evaluation of extra-terrestrial habitats in comparison to the user’s perspective leads to a new framework, comparing these buildings from the viewpoint of human activity. It can be used as reference or as conceptual framework for the purpose of evaluation. It also summarizes relevant human-related design directions. The work is addressed to architects and designers as well as engineers.
Blue Monday
Blue Monday - 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 Blue Monday write by Robert Sumrell. This book was released on 2007. Blue Monday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first book by Architecture Urban Design Collaborative, founded by the authors, captures three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects.
