Paulette Singley

How to Read Architecture

An Introduction to Interpreting the Built Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How to Read Architecture is based on the premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 228mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780415836203
• ISBN-10: 0415836204
• Artikelnr.: 57144770

Autorenporträt

Paulette Singley is a widely read architectural historian and theorist whose work expands the disciplinary limits of architecture across diverse subject matter such as food, film, and fashion. She is a Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California. She received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Cornell University, and a B.Arch. from the University of Southern California. She co-edited Eating Architecture, the first book to explore the intersections of architecture and the culinary arts. She also co-edited Architecture: In Fashion and has published chapters in several anthologies as well as essays in architecture journals such as Log and Assemblage.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ground Rules
Part 1 Reading Between the Lines
Chapter 1 Engraving
Chapter 2 Inscription
Part 2 Outside-In Architecture
Chapter 3 Terroir
Chapter 4 Scenography
Chapter 5 Criticality
Part 3 Inside-Out Architecture
Chapter 6 Atmosphere
Chapter 7 Tectonics
Chapter 8 Inhabitation
Part 4 Out-and-Out Architecture
Chapter 9 Type
Chapter 10 Form
Chapter 11 Enclosure