Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture

Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture
Author: Kurt Brändle
Publisher: Brandle Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780984727117

We experience meaning in architecture when we derive - as observers - impressions from it and when we give - as designers - expressions to it. This implies that meaning in architecture, like in all other fields, is process and result. The related decision making involves judgments based on theoretical and practical issues, driven by purpose, context and realization. This book proceeds from explaining the philosophical foundations of meaning to interpreting physical designs of architecture. At the center of discussion is design thinking with rational and emotional components. Because of the latter, the results are profoundly aesthetic, that is, pleasure or displeasure arises from the form of the object. The concept of design narratives is developed as the dialog between the content and the form of projects. The text is profusely supported by illustrations in color and by extensive bibliographic references. "Meaning and Aesthetics in Architecture" - while being a rather personal account - provides a comprehensive basis for readers to develop their own thoughts and views.

The Aesthetics of Architecture

The Aesthetics of Architecture
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-04-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0691158339

"Paperback reissue, with a new introduction by the author."

Environmental Aesthetics

Environmental Aesthetics
Author: Jack L. Nasar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1992-07-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521429160

How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.

Aesthetics and Architecture

Aesthetics and Architecture
Author: Edward Winters
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007-08-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A sophisticated but engaging look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of architecture - part of a major new series from Continuum's philosophy list.

The Principles of Aesthetics

The Principles of Aesthetics
Author: De Witt H. Parker
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2023-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387052723

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Architecture of Use

The Architecture of Use
Author: Stephen Grabow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135016461

By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative force in determining built form. Using familiar twentieth-century buildings as case studies, the authors present these from a new perspective, based on their functional design concepts. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of human use to that of an art form by re-evaluating these buildings from an aesthetic and ecological view of function. Each building is described from the point of view of a major functional concept or idea of human use which then spreads out and influences the spatial organization, built form and structure. In doing so each building is presented as an exemplar that reaches beyond the pragmatic concerns of a narrow program and demonstrates how functional concepts can inspire great design, evoke archetypal human experience and help us to understand how architecture embodies the deeper purposes and meanings of everyday life.

Reality Modeled After Images

Reality Modeled After Images
Author: Michael Young
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 100040210X

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.

The Aesthetics of Ruins

The Aesthetics of Ruins
Author: Robert Ginsberg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004495932

This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.

Designs and Their Consequences

Designs and Their Consequences
Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300079487

A discussion of the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. It analyzes the relationship between buildings and designs, explores the notion of architectural experience, and covers modern architecture's aim to deepen the connection between usefulness and design.