LEADER 04369oam 2200709I 450 001 9910463419303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-72290-6 010 $a1-283-96878-9 010 $a1-135-74968-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203722909 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325032 035 $a(EBL)1111365 035 $a(OCoLC)826854743 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11517650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844570 035 $a(PQKB)11501021 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1111365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1111365 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10647815 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL428128 035 $a(OCoLC)824733678 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325032 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aScale $eimagination, perception and practice in architecture /$fedited by Gerald Adler, Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Gordana Fontana-Giusti 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon [England] ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aCritiques : critical studies in architectural humanities ;$v7 300 $a"A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association." 300 $aSelected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences. 311 $a0-415-68712-8 311 $a0-415-68711-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aScaleImagination, 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 representation 327 $aExcursus 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' 327 $aScale 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; Index 330 $aScale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. 'To build in scale' is an aspiration that is usually taken for granted by most of those involved in architectural production, as well as by members of the public; yet in a world where value systems of all kinds are being questioned, the term has come under renewed scrutiny. The older, more particular, meanings in the humanities, pertainin 410 0$aCritiques ;$vv. 7. 606 $aArchitecture$xComposition, proportion, etc$vCongresses 606 $aArchitectural design$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitecture$xComposition, proportion, etc. 615 0$aArchitectural design 676 $a720 701 $aAdler$b Gerald$f1955-$0518384 701 $aBrittain-Catlin$b Timothy$0903388 701 $aFontana-Giusti$b Gordana$0304359 712 02$aArchitectural Humanities Research Association. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463419303321 996 $aScale$92177833 997 $aUNINA