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Architecture [electronic resource] : Changing Spatial Transitions Between Context, Construction and Human Activities / by Martin van der Linden.

By: van der Linden, Martin [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements: Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021.Description: XXVII, 272 p. 68 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789813346581.Subject(s): Buildings—Design and construction | Human geography | Construction industry—Management | Building materials | Building Construction and Design | Human Geography | Construction Management | Building MaterialsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 690 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Spatial desire -- The world is islands -- Of pyramids and fire -- Useless architecture -- Chicago -- Universal architecture domination pact -- Transitional space -- Context welcome -- The house as a container for the unconscious -- Zero-time space, the end of architecture.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.
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Introduction -- Spatial desire -- The world is islands -- Of pyramids and fire -- Useless architecture -- Chicago -- Universal architecture domination pact -- Transitional space -- Context welcome -- The house as a container for the unconscious -- Zero-time space, the end of architecture.

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.

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