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(Well) connected architecture

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Description

96 pages : illustrations, plans (some color); 29 cm

Alternative Title

Connected architecture

Subjects

Contents

Architecture meets Pluralism. Architecture expressing freedoms rather than equalities. Architecture, ecology and global economics. Professionalism, ethics and morality -- The Mediatisation of Architecture. The influence of the architectural press: pre-empting experience. Exploiting the press: cheap publishing and propaganda. The inevitability of individualisation and architectural heroes. Smokescreens, populism and the avant-garde -- Change. Change in the rate of change. Directions of change -- Collaboration. Barriers - professional. How we collaborate. Collaborating. Limits of democracy: convergence out of necessity. Learning from Limehouse community -- Nature and Proportion. Chaos and complexity. Geometry, hierarchy and scale -- Art. Preconcepts. Essence. Concepts -- Science and Technology. Scientific understanding. Numbers. Materials. Light. The wonder of glass - transparency -- Human Purpose. Architecture and economics. Compliance, conflict and reason.
The known and unknown user -- Function. Form follows desire. More from less. Use and beauty -- Construction. Triangle of confidence. Skills. Nuts and bolts. Relationships and reality with industry -- Authenticity in Architecture. Head, heart and hands. Art, science and construction for human purpose. eg, Herne-Sodingen Academy, Germany.

ISBN

LCCN

95115304

OCLC

ocm31240785

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries