Dwelling With Architecture - Couverture rigide

Kemsley, Roderick; Platt, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415569036 ISBN 13 : 9780415569033

Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses.

That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as 'building' and 'architecture', it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?

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Roderick Kemsley, Christopher Platt

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415569036
• ISBN 13: 9780415569033
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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