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Experiencing Architecture, second edition

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Experiencing Architecture, second edition

By: Steen Eiler Rasmussen

A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”

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Experiencing Architecture, second edition

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Towns and Buildings

Described in Drawings and Words

By: Steen Eiler Rasmussen

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Towns and Buildings

Described in Drawings and Words

By: Steen Eiler Rasmussen

In the present book an effort has been made to bring the reader to look on the city as an entity which expresses certain ideals. The individual monuments, the buildings, thus become part of a whole. The cities are not all treated in the same fashion or according to a particular method. The chapters are as varied as the subjects, for there are no two cities in the world that are identical.

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0262680114

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9780262680110

Towns and Buildings

Described in Drawings and Words

By: Steen Eiler Rasmussen

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Experiencing Architecture, second edition

Experiencing Architecture, second edition

Experiencing Architecture, second edition

Experiencing Architecture, second edition

Towns and Buildings

Towns and Buildings

Towns and Buildings

Towns and Buildings

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