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The Resource Building time : architecture, event, and experience, David Leatherbarrow

Building time : architecture, event, and experience, David Leatherbarrow

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"While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, 'Building time' explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. All buildings exist in time. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably. They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay. Meanwhile, the sun traces a path in time through a building, as do the movements of the human body from room to room. Time, this book argues, is the framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key dimension of a building's structure and significance. Examining works by distinctive modern architects--from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu--'Building time' is a book for theorists, designers, and anyone who wants to understand our experience of architecture. Through it, theorists will find a way to rethink the fundamental premise of design work, while designers will rediscover the order and ideas that shape the world around them--its buildings, interiors, and landscapes."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 271 pages
Contents
  • Wandering Sites: Wang Shu's Hangzhou guest House
  • Pedestrian Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Past and Present Possibilities: Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi"
  • Proposing Precedents: Rafael Moneo's "Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida"
  • Recalling Future Projects: Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Poli House
  • Project Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • (from table of contents)
  • Making Space for Time
  • Day Time: Adolph Menzel's "Balcony Room"
  • Well-Timed Openings: Eileen Gray's Tempe à Pailla
  • Tempered Terrain: Sverre Fehn's Villa Busk
  • World Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Taking Steps: Nicolaes Maes' "The Eavesdropper"
  • Pacing and Spacing: Bo and Wohlert's "Louisiana Museum"
Isbn
9781350165182
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Building time : architecture, event, and experience
Title
Building time
Title remainder
architecture, event, and experience
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David Leatherbarrow
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, 'Building time' explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. All buildings exist in time. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably. They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay. Meanwhile, the sun traces a path in time through a building, as do the movements of the human body from room to room. Time, this book argues, is the framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key dimension of a building's structure and significance. Examining works by distinctive modern architects--from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu--'Building time' is a book for theorists, designers, and anyone who wants to understand our experience of architecture. Through it, theorists will find a way to rethink the fundamental premise of design work, while designers will rediscover the order and ideas that shape the world around them--its buildings, interiors, and landscapes."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper
Biographical or historical data
David Leatherbarrow. Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
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Leatherbarrow, David,
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  • illustrations
  • plans
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Ellrichshausen, Pezo von
  • Fehn, Sverre
  • Gray, Eileen
  • Leonardo
  • Maes, Nicolaes
  • Menzel, Adolph
  • Moneo, José Rafael
  • Siza, Álvaro
  • Wang, Shu
  • Bo and Wohlert (Firm)
  • Wang, Shu
  • Siza, Álvaro
  • Moneo, José Rafael
  • Menzel, Adolph
  • Maes, Nicolaes
  • Leonardo
  • Gray, Eileen
  • Fehn, Sverre
  • Architecture
  • Architectural design
  • Time
  • Architecture
  • Architecture
  • Architectural design
  • Architecture
  • Time
Label
Building time : architecture, event, and experience, David Leatherbarrow
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Wandering Sites: Wang Shu's Hangzhou guest House
  • Pedestrian Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Past and Present Possibilities: Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi"
  • Proposing Precedents: Rafael Moneo's "Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida"
  • Recalling Future Projects: Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Poli House
  • Project Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • (from table of contents)
  • Making Space for Time
  • Day Time: Adolph Menzel's "Balcony Room"
  • Well-Timed Openings: Eileen Gray's Tempe à Pailla
  • Tempered Terrain: Sverre Fehn's Villa Busk
  • World Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Taking Steps: Nicolaes Maes' "The Eavesdropper"
  • Pacing and Spacing: Bo and Wohlert's "Louisiana Museum"
Control code
1147896089
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 271 pages
Isbn
9781350165182
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (black and white), plans
System control number
(OCoLC)1147896089
Label
Building time : architecture, event, and experience, David Leatherbarrow
Publication
Manufacture
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Wandering Sites: Wang Shu's Hangzhou guest House
  • Pedestrian Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Past and Present Possibilities: Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi"
  • Proposing Precedents: Rafael Moneo's "Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida"
  • Recalling Future Projects: Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Poli House
  • Project Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • (from table of contents)
  • Making Space for Time
  • Day Time: Adolph Menzel's "Balcony Room"
  • Well-Timed Openings: Eileen Gray's Tempe à Pailla
  • Tempered Terrain: Sverre Fehn's Villa Busk
  • World Rhythms: Álvaro Siza's swimming pools at Leça da Palmeira
  • Taking Steps: Nicolaes Maes' "The Eavesdropper"
  • Pacing and Spacing: Bo and Wohlert's "Louisiana Museum"
Control code
1147896089
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 271 pages
Isbn
9781350165182
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (black and white), plans
System control number
(OCoLC)1147896089

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