Architecture is a Verb

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-61037-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment—grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, remembering—in the body. Third, it asks what a building does—that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions.

Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Sarah (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Robinson, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Situated Poetics 2. From Vitruvius to the Resonant Body 3. Extended Organisms—Surrogate Bodies 4. Questioning Perception 5. Constructing Consciousness 6. Taxonomy of Interactions 7. The Primacy of Breathing: Breathing - Resisting - Touching 8. Homo Faber: Resonating - Dancing - Making 9. Collective Dreaming: Imagining - Remembering - Storytelling 10. This Rebellious Field: Abstracting - Framing - Thinking 11. The Soil of the Sensible: Inhabiting - Playing - Healing 12. Fields of Care Appendix: Chart of the Taxonomy of Interactions

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Robinson is an architect practising in San Francisco and Pavia, Italy. She holds degrees in philosophy and architecture, and was the founding chair of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Board of Trustees. Her previous books—Mind in Architecture: Embodiment, Neuroscience and the Future of Design with Juhani Pallasmaa (2015) and Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind (2011)—have been among the first to explore the connections between the cognitive sciences and architecture. She co-founded and edits the journal Intertwining, is an adjunct professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and teaches at NAAD / IUAV University of Venice.