Thinking Architecture: Third, expanded edition

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According to Habraken, architects consider the context to be the 'ordinary' into which they are challenged to produce the 'extraordinary. When it comes to furniture, for example, in a kindergarten, curves would be more interesting than corners, which resemble danger and fear, which can make some children scared and reactive.

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With our senses and the way our body responds to the sound, the smell, the color of a single material, we create architecture. You're unlikely to find this book on any typical architecture reading lists, but that doesn't make it any less essential.This is neuroarchitecture: designing efficient environments based not only on technical parameters of legislation, ergonomics and environmental comfort, but also on subjective indices such as emotion, happiness and well-being. Students should also experiment and understand the use, fabrication, and properties of each material, wood, stone, textile, granite, raw metal, concrete, and asphalt. In „The Leis Houses”, Peter Zumthor describes the genesis of two wooden houses in the town of Leis in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, thus thematizing the special challenge of integrating contemporary architecture into a traditional architectural context. For this purpose, I would like to use the case study of a small village of the Cyclades; my argument is that studying big architectural drawings and maps, reading architectural descriptions of village landscapes or city areas, or applying sociological and anthropological principles to places is not enough. Zumthor’s thoughts can be summarized in the following when we visit a building; we don’t only remember the building itself; we remember what we felt when we were walking in that building.

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After embracing our subjective nature, the next big idea is to understand that architecture’s work should also be founded on common sense derived from our observations. The legendary British group created visions for cities that still feel fresh and fantastical today, and are carried on by designers such as Neil Denari, Lebbeus Woods, and Morphosis.This article shows that despite obvious differences, not least on Arendt’s interpretation of Eichmann, a much more substantial connection obtains between them in their approach to metaphor. This study gathers and interprets the earliest extant references to architects in ancient Greek philosophy, as found in select works of Plato and Aristotle. Giorgio Agamben claims that Auschwitz not Athens, the camp rather than the city is the paradigm of contemporary politics. By lifting this Roman dramatist up out of the footnotes of architectural scholarship (where he is sometimes merely credited with providing the earliest extant use of the Latin term architectus), the following study prepares the grounds for discovering how the cunning agents and agencies of Plautus’ comedies meaningfully illuminate the modus operandi of architects.

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Enriching public spaces will not banish loneliness from cities, but it could help by making residents feel more engaged and comfortable with their surroundings. Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from 26 issues of Oppositions, the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). The dissertation concludes that critical engagement with resentment as a instrument for reconciliation between antagonistic groups can be an effective catalyst for such an endeavor. The turn to affect” in political theory is one of the central strands of thought Zerilli herself takes up in Chapter 9 of A Democratic Theory of Judgment. In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry analyzes the structure of torture as an unmaking of the world in which the tools that ought to support a person’s embodied capacities are used as weapons to break them down.

Taking a closer look at these physiological states could shed light on how city design affects our bodies. Cảm giác mà tôi cố gắng thấm nhuần vật liệu nằm ngoài mọi quy tắc cấu tạo, và chất hữu hình, mùi và âm thanh của chúng chỉ đơn thuần là những yếu tố của ngôn ngữ mà chúng ta có nghĩa vụ sử dụng. By this, I mean that she attends to the ways in which relations between insides and outsides, or between different systems, or between distinct processes are imagined. When we ask people about their stress they say it’s no big deal, yet when we measure their physiology we discover that their responses are off the charts. Last month, the Conscious Cities Conference in London considered how cognitive scientists might make their discoveries more accessible to architects.