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The humanities in architectural design a contemporary and historical perspective /

Offers an in-depth consideration of the impact which the humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design. This book asks how we can restore traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:
Architectural design.
Humanities.
Architecture and society.
Design and technology.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Freedom in the shadow of uncertainty : The responsibility of architectural design / Karsten Harries
  • inHumanities: ethics "inn" architectural praxis / Leonidas Koutsoumpos
  • Cultivating architects: history in architectural education / Alexandra Stara
  • The architect as humanist / Leslie Kavanaugh
  • Migration, emancipation and architecture / James McQuillan
  • Part II. The spectre of technology : Fantasies of the end of technology / Jonathan Sawday
  • Le Corbusier and the other humanities / Andrzej Piotrowski
  • Humanist machines: Daniel Libeskind's "Three lessons in architecture" / Ersi Ioannidou
  • Draw like a builder, build like a writer / Alex Graef and Edmund Frith
  • The word made flesh: in the name of the surveyor, the nomad, and the lunatic / Peter D. Waldman
  • Part III. Measures of awareness : Creative inspirations or intellectual impasses? Reflections on relationships between architecture and the humanities / Nader El-Bizri
  • The human mind and design creativity: Leon Battista Alberti and lineamenta / Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou
  • Renaissance visual thinking: architectural representation as a medium to contemplate "real appearance" / Federica Goffi-Hamilton
  • Neoplatonism at the Accedemia di San Luca in Rome / John Hendrix
  • Who's on first? / Donald Kunze
  • Part 4. Challenges of instrumental knowledge : Architecture as a humanistic discipline / Dalibor Vesely
  • The situational space of André Breton's atelier and personal museum in Paris / Dagmar Motycka Weston
  • L'histoire assassinée: Manfredo Tafuri and the present / Teresa Stoppani
  • Nature choreographed / Anne-Louise Sommer
  • The birth of modernity out of the spirit of music? Henry van de Velde and the Nietzsche Archive / Ole W. Fischer.

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