04471oam 2200733I 450 991081812270332120240131152823.01-135-74975-20-203-72290-61-283-96878-91-135-74968-X10.4324/9780203722909 (CKB)2670000000325032(EBL)1111365(OCoLC)826854743(SSID)ssj0000819077(PQKBManifestationID)11517650(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819077(PQKBWorkID)10844570(PQKB)11501021(MiAaPQ)EBC1111365(Au-PeEL)EBL1111365(CaPaEBR)ebr10647815(CaONFJC)MIL428128(OCoLC)824733678(FINmELB)ELB133427(EXLCZ)99267000000032503220180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScale imagination, perception and practice in architecture /edited by Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Gordana Fontana-GiustiAbingdon, Oxon [England] ;New York, N.Y. :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (257 p.)Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ;7"A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association."Selected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences.0-415-68712-8 0-415-68711-X Includes bibliographical references and index.ScaleImagination, Perception andPractice in Architecture; Copyright; Contents; Illustration credits; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Excursus 1: The scale of the detail; Scale before the twentieth century; The role of small-scale images by Wenceslaus Hollar: the rebuilding of London in the late seventeenth century; Mildendo and Masdar: a tale of two cities; 'Examining the knots . . . counting the bricks': John Ruskin's innocent eye; The worm's eye as a measure of man: Choisy's development of axonometry in architectural representationExcursus 2: Scale in recent projects by MVRDVScale in art and perception; Colour scales; Scales of interaction: aligning the qualitative with the quantitative in music and architecture; Architectural scale: psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes; Sublime indifference; Measuring up: measurement pieces and the redefinition of scale in conceptual art; Scaling haptics - haptic scaling: studying scale and scaling in the haptic design process of two architects who lost their sight; Scale adjustment in architecture and music; Excursus 3: Complex ordinariness in Oxford: 'House after Two Years of Living'Scale in the twentieth century and beyondEthos pathos logos: architects and their chairs; 'Halfway between the electron and the universe': Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia; Little boxes; Scale and identity in the housing projects of Coderch; Politics and the deliquescence of scale: the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin; Bibliography; IndexScale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. 'To build in scale' is an aspiration that is usually taken for granted by most of those involved in architectural production, as well as by members of the public; yet in a world where value systems of all kinds are being questioned, the term has come under renewed scrutiny. The older, more particular, meanings in the humanities, pertaininCritiques ;v. 7.Imagination, perception, and practice in architectureArchitectureComposition, proportion, etcCongressesArchitectural designCongressesArchitectureComposition, proportion, etc.Architectural design720Adler Gerald1955-518384Brittain-Catlin Timothy1599675Fontana-Giusti Gordana304359Architectural Humanities Research Association.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818122703321Scale4036997UNINA