The Roots of Architectural Invention

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:David Leatherbarrow

页数:262

出版时间:1993-9-24

价格:USD 74.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521442657

图书标签:建筑理论建筑David_leatherbarrowarchitecturearchitecture+anthropology建筑学David_Leatherbarrow英文原版

Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture is a study in the history and theory of architecture. Challenging the contemporary concentration on style, it argues that site, enclosure and materials are fundamental elements in sound architectural design. Each of the chapters in this study reviews and criticises current assumptions and then provides an analysis of historical texts, by such theoreticians as Perrault, F. L. Wright, and Le Corbusier, in so far as they illuminate current thinking. Considerable discussion is also devoted to significant buildings, both modern and venerable, that provide the basis for the author's argument. Outlining typical thinking in architecture, with reference to rhetoric and the art of memory, Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture defines architecture as a form of representation that is caught up in the temporal unfolding of human events.

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"architecture is not architecture, but is the results of something other than architecture." David说自己在三十多岁时写了一本应该在七十岁时写的书

"architecture is not architecture, but is the results of something other than architecture." David说自己在三十多岁时写了一本应该在七十岁时写的书

one of the key books, on the theme of how culture sips into architecture

classic, and I need to translate the conclusion part for myself as an official ending.

one of the key books, on the theme of how culture sips into architecture