The Meaning Of The Built Environment
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Author | : Amos Rapoport |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780816511761 |
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The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.
Author | : Federico Bellentani |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110614812 |
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This volume analyses the interpretation of the built environment by connecting analytical frames developed in the fields of semiotics and geography. It focuses on specific components of the built environment: monuments and memorials, as it is easily recognisable that they are erected to promote specific meanings in the public space. The volume concentrates on monuments and memorials in post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe, with a focus on Estonia. Elites in post-Soviet countries have often used monuments to shape meanings reflecting the needs of post-Soviet culture and society. However, individuals can interpret monuments in ways that are different from those envisioned by their designers. In Estonia, the relocation and removal of Soviet monuments and the erection of new ones has often created political divisions and resulted in civil disorder. This book examines the potential gap between the designers’ expectations and the users’ interpretations of monuments and memorials. The main argument is that connecting semiotics and geography can provide an innovative framework to understand how monuments convey meanings and how these are variously interpreted at societal levels.
Author | : Ole Möystad |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317282841 |
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Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. The assumption is that we and our built environment together form an intelligent system, a cognitive feedback loop between us and the world of which we are part. With this as a vantage point, the book discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural environments as well as the agency of the architect, of his client and of the user. The inquiry oscillates between abstract thought, topological models and cognitive semiotics, between pragmatist philosophy and the professional practice of planning cities, developing projects and using objects. Architecture serves more complex purposes than our caves, paths and landmarks did. Written for students and academics of urban design, urban planning and architectural theory, Cognition and the Built Environment argues that human cognition feeds on the interaction between thought, agency and built environment, and that architecture is the spatial form of this interaction.
Author | : Tomás Llorens Serra |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Emily Hasler |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1786946068 |
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A breath-taking collection that moves between local and distant, urban and rural, past and present. This is poetry of emotional density with a lightness of touch, structural but organic, detailed but lively, thoughtful but playful. A rare combination of exactitude and wonder leading the reader in and keeping them there.
Author | : Timothy Gorringe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780521891448 |
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In this 2002 book, Tim Gorringe reflects theologically on the built environment as a whole.
Author | : William D. Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wendy R. McClure |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2011-09-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1118174151 |
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This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.
Author | : Donald Preziosi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Emilio Garcia |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-07-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3030777839 |
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This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .