Aesthetics of built form:
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| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
1992
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 289 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0198563361 |
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| adam_text | Contents
1 Introduction 1
Overview 1
The relevance of aesthetics to practical design 6
Professional benefits 6
Public benefits 7
Improvement in the working of the design team 7
Difficulties facing the technologist 9
Differences in perception 9
Differences in language 10
Differing values 11
The value of the engineer’s approach 14
2 Terms and concepts in aesthetics 16
Introduction 16
General observations 17
The dissection of beauty 20
Parallel concepts 24
Aesthetic experience, aesthetic object, and aesthetic attitude 27
The rarefaction of beauty, art, and architecture 32
The contribution of the observer 35
Taste, style, and fashion 38
3 Perception and formal analysis 42
Introduction 42
Differences in perception 42
The limitations of two-dimensional representation 45
Size and scale 48
Proportion 51
Form and shape 54
Space 60
Visual weight 71
Texture 72
Light 76
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Colour and pattern 76
Composition: balance, unity, harmony, and duality 78
Movement and rhythm in buildings 81
Flow of space 85
4 Subjective response to built form 87
An overview 87
Emotional response to space 90
Emotional response to form 92
Emotional responses to scale 96
Response to texture, colour, and light 97
Feelings about physical security and structural stability 102
Empathy 104
Anthropomorphism and animalization 106
Sensuality 110
Humour 112
Security versus stimulus—a tension 115
Visual order and disorder 115
Harmony and contrast 117
Simplicity versus complexity 118
Association and nostalgia 120
Literary allusion 122
Sensitivity in the observer 123
Sense of place 124
Intellectual games 126
Intention 126
Feelings about logic in design 128
Conclusion 128
5 Language in built form 130
Introduction 130
The various forms of association 130
Direct simile 130
Meaning as indication of use 131
Historical reference 136
Direct association of forms with abstract concepts 136
Codes 137
Meaning as the manifestation of culture 141
Analogies with language 143
Grammar in the design of built form 143
Messages of virtuosity and rebellion 147
Built form and rhetoric 148
Contents xiii
Linguistics and architecture 149
Saussure 149
Structuralism 151
Insights into the appreciation of built form 152
Discussion 156
Problems in developing and applying the theory of signs 156
Personal and cultural interpretations of meaning 157
Is symbolism inevitable? 160
6 Political and moral overtones of built form 162
An overview 162
Built form and national politics 165
The politics of art 174
The politics of the design process 175
Ethics and built form 178
The moralistic perspective 178
Moral education 180
Truth and honesty 181
Sincerity 182
Ornament 183
Belief, perception, and personality 185
Conclusion: the connection between politics and built form 188
7 Functionalism in history 191
Introduction 191
Functionalist ideals in the history of philosophy and
architectural theory 192
Aesthetics prior to the seventeenth century 192
Renaissance to baroque 193
Aesthetics in Britain from 1700 to 1850 193
Romanticism, mechanics, and biology 195
The Chicago school 197
In pursuit of ugliness and beauty 198
Functionalism in the modern movement 199
Overview 199
From rationalism to the Werkbund 202
The 1920s: art and the romanticized machine 203
Paradox and tension 206
Unselfconscious functionalism and its interpreters 208
8 Functionalism: definitions, viewpoints, and controversy 215
Current views of functionalism in the world of architecture 215
Introduction 215
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The form of a building should indicate its purpose 216
Pragmatic version 216
Symbolic version 216
Formulation: pure, simple volumes best satisfy user needs 217
Formulation: functionalism is, and demands, the differentiation
of the parts of a building 217
Prescription: natural organisms provide the best model of
adaption to function 217
General 217
The religious end of the spectrum 218
The pragmatic end of the spectrum 218
The static model 218
The dynamic, or metabolist model 218
Formulation: functionalism is a matter of load-bearing structure
and services 219
Extended interpretations of functionalism 220
Formulation: good design results from functional efficiency 222
Formulation: beauty results from functional efficiency 222
Rationalism and its distinction from functionalism 224
The engineer’s definition of function 225
The relationship between form and function 226
Function and beauty: modified positions 229
Some objections and counter-arguments 231
Towards a theory of function and beauty 235
Formulations 235
Possibilities for research into the aesthetics of industrial structures 236
9 Aesthetics and the philosophy of structural design 239
Introduction 239
The ‘cost’ of aesthetics 239
Aesthetic accountancy 241
Engineers and aesthetic design 242
The elusive objective of aesthetic design 243
Towards an aesthetic of engineering design 248
Conclusion 252
Notes 255
References 265
Index 273
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