Experiencing architecture / Steen Eiler Rasmussen

By:

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 1964.Edition: First MIT Press paperback editionDescription: 245 pISBN:

9780262680028

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.1 RAS-E

Contents:

Content : 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 architecture.

Summary: Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages 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 suitable comeliness.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-1	Non Fiction	720.1 RAS-E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010483

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Content : 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 architecture.

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages 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 suitable comeliness.

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