Extrait
CONTENTS
Introduction: ‘Looking up’
PART ONE: The Persistence of Tradition
(Chapter 1) The Lure of Inherited Forms
Interlude. Architectural Debates: The Space/Place Problem
(Chapter 2) Chinese Whispers.
Episode: Architecture and Desire
PART TWO: The Shock of the New. The 20th Century
(Chapter 3) Building the Tower of Babel. The Skyscraper Tradition
Interlude. Architectural Debates: Illusionism & Ideology.
(Chapter 4) City of Glass. Modernism & Beyond
PART THREE: A Unitary Vision? Cityscapes, Old & New
(Chapter 5) Reading Architecture! Points of Orientation
i/ Whose stand-point? Horizon v Stand-alones
ii/ Points of view. Pointed Roof v Flat Roof Traditions
Afterword: Evolution of the Eye
Appendices: Timelines. i/ Architectural archetypes (skiamorphs).
ii/Beijing: a very short architectural history
- Citation du texte
- Peter Nesteruk (Auteur), 2012, Bejing Solarscape: A Visual Anthropology, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/190197
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