Architecture oriented otherwise
By: David Leatherbarrow.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781568988115
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy
Description: "Renowned writer and thinker David Leatherbarrow argues for a richer and more profound, but also more rational, way of thinking about architecture, namely on the basis of how it performs. Not only how it functions, but how it acts, "its manner of existing in the world," including its effects on the observers and inhabitants of a building as well as on the landscape that situates it. In the process, Leatherbarrow transforms our way of discussing buildings from a passive technical or programmatic assessment to an active and engaged examination of the lives and performances of buildings, intended and otherwise."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Orientation otherwise; title: Performances; title: Breathing walls; title: Unscripted performances; title: Materials matter; title: Roughness; title: Situations; title: Table talk; title: Sitting in the city; title: Practically primitive; title: Topographies; title: Skylines; title: Landings and crossings; title: Space in and out of architecture; title: Law of meander.