00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612916473 Buklod 20181124140703.0 a r |||| u| ta 181124s2016 xx d r |||| u| 9780500343210 (iLib)UPD-00397765438 CAL-13347 Forefront Php2,548.99 DECL Prof. Isabelita O. Reyes UOK DCAL rda eng DMLUC NA 2840 P58 2016 Plummer, Henry 1946- author. The Experience of architecture Henry Plummer. London Thames & Hudson Ltd 2016. 287 pages color illustrations, plans 27 cm. text rdacontent. unmediated rdamedia. volume rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index. Floors of agility. The docile effect of flat ground -- Vernacular stairs and footpath -- Gravitational currents -- Acrobatic staircases -- The sprightly Japanese floor -- Vertiginous edges -- Sky cities and residential eyries -- The graceful flight of ramps -- Catwalks -- Mechanisms of transformation. Interplay and discovering the self -- The red herrings of machine architecture -- Modest sliding screens of Japan -- Simple but rewarding vernacular devices -- Genealogy of modern kineticism -- Mechanical marvels of the Maison de Verre -- The poetic mutations of Carlo Scarpa -- Tom Kundig's "Gizmos" and Steven Holl's "Hinged space" -- Spaces of versatility. Ambiguity -- Double-perspective in 20th-century poetry and painting -- The freedom of elbow room -- Composite staircases -- Italian piazzas, both grand and intimate -- Wright's "Sovereignty of the individual" -- Polyvalent forms of Herman Hertzberger -- Maurice Smith's spatial collages -- Giancarlo de Carlo's participatory architecture -- The binary values of Aldo van Eyck. Depths of discovery. Secrets of residual space -- Japanese grilles and blinds -- Forest-like ventures -- The mystery of shadows -- Fogged images in translucent walls -- Intricacy and patina -- Tiny immensity -- Spatial elasticity of Sir John Soane -- Enigmatic details of Carlo Scarpa -- The primorial journey -- The compelling glimpse -- Enfilades and receding thresholds -- Fields of action. Painterly images of a previous world -- Under construction and in ruin -- The field of forces in science and art -- Open-form cities -- Stone forests -- Interlaced webs of iron and glass -- Interfolding space from Wright to Kappe -- Construction of holes -- Three-dimensional habitable fields of Maurice Smith -- The Japanese spatial lattice. How does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space to lead into another, affect us? This book aims to understand how these everyday acts are influenced by architectural form, a concept that is vital for all architects to grasp if our buildings are to be anything more than a commercial or aesthetic enterprise. It considers how specific built elements and volumes can sustain or deny our powers of decision. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our daily interactions with architecture, looking at stairs, floors and paths, moving interior spaces, perception and perspective, transparency and the relationship between a building and its setting. This book is not just for architects and designers engaged in the production of space, but for all those who seek a richer understanding of their place in the built world. Architecture Details. FO UPD DCAL NA 2840 P58 2016 Book