The Words Between the Spaces

Buildings and Language
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-14346-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Architext

Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts.
The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cameron, Deborah

Markus, Thomas A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Language Matters. 2. Buildings and their Texts: A Brief History. 3. Classification. 4. Power. 5. Value. 6. Heritage. 7. Images. Afterword: Some Applications. Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Cameron, Deborah; Markus, Thomas A.