Dynamics of Architectural Form

Name: Dynamics of Architectural Form
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ISBN: 9780520035515

ISBN-10: 0520035518

ISBN-13: 9780520035515

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rudolf Arnheim

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The power of the visual effects exerted by architecture, in our own time and in the past, has been largely neglected in recent discussion, with its focus on practical utility and other economic and social factors. Such an account of the human needs met by architecture remains sadly incomplete unless the expressive visual qualities of buildings are recognized as among their foremost effects. A fresh approach is overdue--an attempt to analyze these psychological qualities with the principles of visual perception. Such an attempt is made in this new volume by Rudolf Arnheim, who has been known, since the publication of hisArt and Visual Perception,as an authority on the psychological…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/7/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 289
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Elements of Space



Vertical and Horizontal



Solids and Hollows



As It Looks and As It Is



Mobility



Order and Disorder



Symbols through Dynamics



Expression and Function


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index