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Author Szuba, Boguslaw

Title Beauty in Architecture Harmony of Place
Published Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (486 p.)
Series Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society Ser. ; v.36
Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society Ser
Contents Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Harmony of beauty and harmony of place -- Conceptualisation (Bogusław Szuba) -- Analysis (Tomasz Drewniak) -- Part I Harmony of the city -- from art to reality -- The fictional cities of Italo Calvino in contemporary visual arts (Tatiana Goranskaya) -- Influence of the categories beautiful and nature on the formation of the space of a traditional Chinese city and house (Ping Zhou, Nina Kazhar)
Losses in the architectural and planning structure of the Renaissance towns in Galicia in the period from 1939 to the 1990s (Svitlana Topylko, Ulyana Ivanochko) -- Part II Places of/in public space -- Transformations of city centres according to Jan Gehl's theory. Meetings with the master in Lublin (Jan Wrana) -- Typology and transformation of public spaces -- urban interiors on the example of Podgorica, Montenegro (Gordana Rovčanin Premović) -- Part III Place as an interior -- The In-Side beauty of architecture (Peter Schmid-​Prakas, Gabriella Pál-​Schmid)
Who does make the domestic space? (Marco Lucchini) -- The aesthetic integrity of the architecture of the contemporary interior in the old and new building (Mieczysław K. Leniartek) -- Part IV Dominants of the place -- The problems of beauty and the particular elements in landscape − case studies in the surroundings of the town of Bieruń (Grażyna Lasek) -- The Northern River Terminal in Moscow. A historical monument and harmony of the place (Irina Cheredina, Ekaterina Rybakova)
Reconstruction of building structures of historical and architectural heritage in the Tbilisi city (Irakli Kvaraia, Inga Iremashvili, Liana Giorgobiani, Adam Ujma) -- Harmony of space in the German concept of modern tourism reflected in the first Guidebooks (Alina Dittmann) -- Part V Tectonics of the place -- Dynamic harmony of modularised space (Hanna Michalak, Jerzy Suchanek) -- Harmony of sound and architecture as one of the important criteria for shaping human space (Anna Telatycka) -- Part VI Friendly living space
Contemporary housing estate − urban layout in the area of the former depot of Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji in Lublin (Katarzyna Szmygin, Olga Górnik) -- Selected aspects of the harmony of the housing environment (Agata Pięt) -- Part VII Decoration of the place -- Camillo Boito − an architect on the way of discovering beauty in decorative art (Elżbieta Barbara Lenart) -- Architectural glass art compositions as significant components defining the character of public interiors and urban spaces (Konrad Urbanowicz) -- Part VIII Towards the trans-objective (transcendental) aesthetics of place
Summary The harmony of a place is a state of the dynamic balance of mutual local interactions of the natural, socio-cultural, and constructed environment. Such shaped places should be a space for organising human work, interpersonal meetings, living zones, recreation and relaxation areas, stimulating the senses, and conducting spiritual experiences
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Architecture -- Aesthetics.
Harmony (Aesthetics)
Architecture -- Aesthetics.
Harmony (Aesthetics)
Form Electronic book
Author Drewniak, Tomasz
ISBN 3631875908
9783631875902
9783631875919
3631875916