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Architecture Oriented Otherwise

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By (author): David Leatherbarrow

The book argues for a shift of orientation in architectural thought, from what the building is to what it does; it also shows that the workings or the reality of the individual work (the room, building, garden, or landscape) cannot be understood apart its wider milieu, the environment in which it finds orientation. We tend to think of buildings as rather static or inert objects; buildings win praise for their stability. What''s more, we also tend to assume each building is a discrete work that can be fully explained by the intentions of its designer and the techniques of its builders. These accounts aren''t wrong, just partial. An important argument of this book is that conception and construction only explain the work''s pre-history, not its manner of existing in the world, its ways of variously resisting and allowing the impress or effect of the forces that animate the wider location. Leatherbarrow describes what happens to an architectural work once it is exposed to the world, how it behaves among others, on the street. This is important because that exposure or behavior strongly affects what we know of and like about buildings. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jan 2015
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781616893026

About David Leatherbarrow

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Ph.D. Program at the University of Pennsylvania where he has taught architectural design history and theory since 1984 and where he was departmental chair between 1992 and 1998. Before going to Penn he taught in England at Cambridge University and the Polytechnic of Central London.

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