Experiencing Architecture, Second Edition

Name: Experiencing Architecture, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780262680028

ISBN-10: 0262680025

ISBN-13: 9780262680028

Edition: 2nd 1962

Authors: Steen Eiler Rasmussen

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Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecturemanages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author ranges over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence. At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the entire community tool part in forming the dwellings and implements they used. The individual was in fruitful contact with these things; the anonymous houses were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1962
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/15/1964
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.24" wide x 9.41" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Basic Observations



Solids and Cavities in Architecture



Contrasting Effects of Solids and Cavities



Architecture Experienced as Color Planes



Scale and Proportion



Rhythm in Architecture



Textural Effects



Daylight in Architecture



Color in Architecture



Hearing in Architecture


Index