| Description |
xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Critiques : critical studies in architectural humanities |
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Critiques.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Scaling haptics -- haptic scaling: studying scale and scaling in the haptic design process of two architects who lost their sight / Ann Heylighen -- Scale adjustment in architecture and music / Richard Coyne -- Excursus 3 Complex ordinariness in Oxford: ̀House after Two Years of Living' / Igea Troiani -- Scale in the twentieth century and beyond -- Ethos pathos logos: architects and their chairs / Jonathan Foote -- ̀Halfway between the electron and the universe': Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia / Simon Richards -- Little boxes / Gerald Adler -- Scale and identity in the housing projects of Coderch / Michael Pike -- Politics and the deliquescence of scale: the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin / Michael J. Ostwald |
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Machine generated contents note: Excursus 1 The scale of the detail / Nathalie Rozencwajg -- Scale before the twentieth century -- The role of small-scale images by Wenceslaus Hollar: the rebuilding of London in the late seventeenth century / Gordana Fontana-Giusti -- Mildendo and Masdar: a tale of two cities / Adam Sharr -- ̀Examining the knots ... counting the bricks': John Ruskin's innocent eye / Stephen Kite -- The worm's eye as a measure of man: Choisy's development of axonometry in architectural representation / Hilary Bryon -- Excursus 2 Scale in recent projects by MVRDV / Nathalie de Vries -- Scale in art and perception -- Colour scales / Fay Zika -- Scales of interaction: aligning the qualitative with the quantitative in music and architecture / Fiona Smyth -- Architectural scale: psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes / Janet Sayers -- Sublime indifference / Helen Mallinson -- Measuring up: measurement pieces and the redefinition of scale in conceptual art / Elise Noyez -- |
| Notes |
"A project of the Architectural Humanities Research Association." |
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Selected papers from the AHRA Annual International Conferences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc.
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| Author |
Adler, Gerald, 1955-
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Brittain-Catlin, Timothy.
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Fontana-Giusti, Gordana.
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Architectural Humanities Research Association.
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| LC no. |
2011019716 |
| ISBN |
041568711X (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0415687128 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780415687119 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780415687126 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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