Author: Claude Fayette BragdonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Beautiful Necessity
Author: Claude Fayette BragdonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Beautiful Necessity
Author: Claude Fayette BragdonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
"The Beautiful Necessity" by Claude Fayette Bragdon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Beautiful Necessity
Author: Claude BragdonPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 048679508X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Seven illustrated essays by a noted American builder of the early 20th century examine ancient and modern structures, offering a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science.
Architecture and the Unconscious
Author: John Shannon HendrixPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317179250
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices, into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts, in the way that, say, the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that the historian Manfredo Tafuri was able to do with the Marxist critique of architecture. The discourse of the present volume focuses specifically for the first time on the subject of the unconscious in relation to the design, perception, and understanding of architecture. It brings together an international group of contributors, who provide informed and varied points of view on the role of the unconscious in architectural design and theory and, in doing so, expand architectural theory to unexplored areas, enriching architecture in relation to the humanities. The book explores how architecture engages dreams, desires, imagination, memory, and emotions, how architecture can appeal to a broader scope of human experience and identity. Beginning by examining the historical development of the engagement of the unconscious in architectural discourse, and the current and historical, theoretical and practical, intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis, the volume also analyses the city and the urban condition.
The American Theosophist
Author: Catalogue
Author: W. Heffer & SonsThe School Arts Book
Author: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions
Author: Hooman KolijiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317117697
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer’s imagination. As a result, drawing may become a utilitarian tool for documentation, devoid of any meaningful value in terms of a kind of knowledge that could potentially link the visible and invisible. This book argues that design drawings should be recognized as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The notion of the 'Imaginal' as an intermediary between the invisible and visible is discussed, showing how architectural drawings lend themselves to this notion by performing as creative agents contributing not only to the physical world but also penetrating the realm of concepts. The book argues that this 'in-between' quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold physical attributes (for example, form, proportion, color), highly evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, both historical and contemporary, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act. In doing so, this book not only makes important insights into the design process and act of architectural representation, but more broadly it adds to debates on philosophies of the imagination, linking both Western and Islamic traditions.