Kenosis Creativity 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 Kenosis Creativity Architecture write by Randall S. Lindstrom. This book was released on 2021-03-21. Kenosis Creativity Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the “emptying” that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible. It concretises that grounding through architecture—a primal expression of human creativity—critically examining, for the first time, kenotic instantiations evidenced in four iconic, international projects; works by Kahn, Pei, Ando, and Libeskind. Then, in a final turn, the potentiality of architecture’s own emptying is probed. Architect and author Randall Lindstrom draws on Western and Eastern philosophy, including that of Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Vattimo, Nishida, and Nishitani, as well as on the theology of Christianity, Judaism, and aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. Every chapter expands the argument that, if responsiveness to our world is taken seriously—if proper and sustainable responses are to be realised—then a deeper understanding of creativity, and so kenosis, is essential. This book opens-up a way of thinking about creativity and humanity’s readiness to be creative. It thereby presents a crucial enquiry—at the nexus of architecture, philosophy, and theology—for researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners alike.
Kenosis Creativity Architecture
Kenosis Creativity 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 Kenosis Creativity Architecture write by Randall Scott Lindstrom. This book was released on 2015. Kenosis Creativity Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Architecture of Place
An Architecture of Place - 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 An Architecture of Place write by Randall S. Lindstrom. This book was released on 2024-06-25. An Architecture of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design
Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design - 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 Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design write by Kristof Van Assche. This book was released on 2023-12-11. Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community.
Affect, Architecture, and Practice
Affect, Architecture, and Practice - 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 Affect, Architecture, and Practice write by Akari Nakai Kidd. This book was released on 2021-05-17. Affect, Architecture, and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little attention has been paid to the creative process of architectural design and the role that affect plays in the many contingencies and uncertainties that arise in the process. The book traces the critical, philosophic, and architectural theories to examine how affect, architecture, and practice are interlinked. Through a series of conversations and reflections, it examines three key contemporary architects, their practices and projects, all within a single coherent theme. Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architecture DPC), USA, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Australia, and Shigeru Ban Architects, Japan, are critically studied through the lens of different aspects of practice, namely image-making, the design process, and the making of an everyday object/material. Through this investigation, author Akari Nakai Kidd demonstrates how affect theory allows a critical interrogation of the in-betweens of practice, its liminality and limits. It questions the stability of objects, the smooth temporality of practice, and its often under-conceptualised non-human dimensions. More significantly, the book demonstrates architectural practice’s contribution to the reconceptualisation of theories of affect.
