Rumiko Handa

Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent (eBook, ePUB)

Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Buildings continue changing once 'complete'. Examining the allure of incomplete, imperfect and impermanent architecture, professionals, students and educators are called upon to anticipate future changes by incorporating them into their designs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317563297
• Artikelnr.: 42037875

Autorenporträt

Rumiko Handa is Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Arch. from the University of Tokyo. Her writings have appeared in: Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Preservation Education & Research; The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; Design Studies, etc. She co-edited Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Problematic Notion of Complete, Perfect, and Permanent
Architecture 1. Mutability of Architecture 2. Authorial Authority 3.
Alienation from the Everyday Part 2: Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect,
and Impermanent 4. The Incomplete - Synecdoche 5. The Impermanent -
Palimpsest 6. The Imperfect - Wabi Part 3: Articulating the Properties of
Engagement 7. Appreciating Architecture as Nature 8. Representing
Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent Architecture Conclusion Bibliography
Index