Experiencing Architecture
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262680025 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent and Accessible Architectural Overview" according to Robert I. Hedges. I am interested in architecture as a hobby, and as a potential career at some point in the future, so the perspective I had when reading this book was that of an informed amateur. I can't praise this little book enough. In its pages are the best explanations and analyses of contrasts, textures, shapes, and colors that I have seen in one single, condensed location.Originally published in Denmark in 1959, and therefore lacking some of the more contemporary and postmodern design trends, this is an invaluable analysis of primarily European design through the mid twentieth c. "Timeless classic in this field" according to Zaine Ridling. In this tightly packed and perfectly illustrated book, Rasmussen manages to convey the elements that make architecture significant to people, governments, cultures, and even to historic god-believers (and why). If someone asked me to recommend one book to read about architecture, this would be it. A classic, indeed.. A Great Experience P. Martin When I was looking for some books to begin to learn about architecture (on a purely amateur level), someone recommended "Experiencing Architecture". I could not be happier with this book. The author consistently uses simple, concrete and engaging examples to illustrate his points. He compares and contrasts; uses buildings, sidewalks, windows, doorways, and steps from all over the world and across the centuries. Given my love of travel and history these references (liberally illustrated throughout the book in black and white photographs and some drawings) brought the boo
A book of great charm and broad understanding. (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism) . (Architectural Forum)so lucid and clear that every layman and beginner will be able to understand and to enjoy it
The basis of competent professionalism is a sympathetic and knowledgeable group of amateurs, of non-professional art lovers.". We must strive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work the architect does. 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. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary people are doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries
He was author of London: The Unique City, called "the best book on London as a town," and other books.. Steen Eiler Rasmussen was Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Visiting Professor at MIT, Yale, Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Berkeley, and lectured widely at universities in Europe and the United Stat