Christos P. Kakalis

Architecture and Silence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process.

Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Architecture
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367784263
• ISBN-10: 0367784262
• Artikelnr.: 61211203

Autorenporträt

Christos P. Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Performativity

1. Hesychasm, Silence and the Stillness of Mount Athos

Interruption I: Scoring Silence-Scapes

2. Walking in Silence / Urban Encounters

co-authored with Stella Mygdali

3. Hot Air Balloon Movements to Stillness: Uplifting Atmospherics and the Architecture of Flight

4. Narrating the Spatiality of Silence: Drawing from the Silence of Samuel Beckett and Andrei Tarkovsky

5. Silence in Place: An Interview with Jeff Malpas

Part II Communication

6. Silence, Music and Architectural Design: Stillness and Transparency in the work of Arvo Pärt and John Cage

Interruption II: Silence, Liminality and Monastic Space

7. Silence in Architectural Education

co-authored with Olga Ioannou

Interruption III: Silence, Emptiness and Architectural Design co-authored with Iván J. Márquez Muñoz

8. Notating Silences and Absences

co-authored with Rachel Armstrong, Rolf Hughes and Simone Feraccina

9. Keeping Silent to Listen: An Interview with Alberto P rez-G mez