TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plummer,Henry
TI  - The experience of architecture
SN  - 0500343217
AV  - NA2840 .P58 2016
U1  - 721 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson Ltd
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Details
KW  - Human factors
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : places of possibility --; 1; Floors of agility --; The docile effect of flat ground --; Vernacular stairs and footpaths --; Gravitational currents --; Acrobatic staircases --; The sprightly Japanese floor --; Vertiginous edges --; Sky cities and residential eyries --; The graceful flight of ramps --; Catwalks : from the Eiffel Tower to Arne Jacobsen's stairways --; 2; Mechanisms of transformation --; Interplay and discovering the self --; The red herrings of machine architecture --; Modest sliding screens of Japan --; Simple but rewarding vernacular devices --; Genealogy of modern kineticism --; Mechanical marvels of the Maison de verre --; The poetic mutations of Carlo Scarpa --; Tom Kundig's 'Gizmos' and Steven Holl's 'Hinged space' --; 3; Spaces of versatility --; Ambiguity --; Double-perspective in 20th-century poetry and painting --; The freedom of elbow room --; Composite staircases --; Italian piazzas, both grand and intimate --; Wright's 'Sovereignty of the individual' --; Polyvalent forms of Herman Hertzberger --; Maurice Smith's spatial collages --; Giancarlo de Carlo's participatory architecture --; The binary values of Aldo van Eyck --; 4; Depths of discovery --; Secrets of residual space --; Japanese grilles and blinds --; Forest-like ventures --; The mystery of shadows --; Fogged images in translucent walls --; Intricacy and patina --; Tiny immensity --; Spatial elasticity of Sir John Soane --; Enigmatic details of Carlo Scarpa --; The primorial journey --; The compelling glimpse --; Enfilades and receding thresholds --; 5; Fields of action; Painterly images of a pervious world --; Under construction and in ruin --; The field of forces in science and art --; Open-form cities --; Stone forests --; Interlaced webs of iron and glass --; Interfolding space from Wright to Kappe --; Construction of holes --; Three-dimensional habitable fields of Maurice Smith --; The Japanese spatial lattice
N2  - "How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space to lead into another, affect us?... This book aims to understand how these everyday acts are influenced by architectural form, a concept that is vital for all architects to grasp if our buildings are to be anything more than a commercial or aesthetic enterprise. It considers how specific built elements and volumes, taken from a wide array of buildings and settings around the world, can sustain or deny our powers of decision."--Publisher's website
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