1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000727220403321

Autore

Gieselmann, Reinhard

Titolo

Kirchenbau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zurich : Verlag Girsberger (, Reinhard Gieselmann, Werner Aebli), 1960

Descrizione fisica

152 p. : ill. ; 22cm

Locazione

FARBC

DCATA

Collocazione

ARCH B 472

225000

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483225103321

Autore

Linden Martin van der

Titolo

Architecture : changing spatial transitions between context, construction and human activities / / Martin van der Linden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-334-658-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVII, 272 p. 68 illus.)

Collana

Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, , 2198-2546

Disciplina

720.103

Soggetti

Building

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Spatial desire -- The world is islands -- Of pyramids and fire -- Useless architecture -- Chicago -- Universal architecture domination pact -- Transitional space -- Context welcome -- The house as a container for the unconscious -- Zero-time space, the end



of architecture.

Sommario/riassunto

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.