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Context : Architecture and the Genius of Place.
Title:
Context : Architecture and the Genius of Place.
Author:
Parry, Eric.
ISBN:
9781118946732
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Series:
Architectural Design Primer
Contents:
Context -- Contents -- Introduction -- References -- 1 Pavement -- Latent Common Ground -- Paving the Sacred, Profane and Political -- London Bridge -- Lisbon's Carpet -- Field of Stones, Kalmar -- Sacred Surfaces -- The Mnemonic Device -- References -- 2 Horizon -- Horizon and Language -- The Collective Skyline -- The Rise of London's Skyline -- Horizon as City Spectacle -- The Wellbeing of Horizon -- Bo Bardi, Kahn and Mies van der Rohe: Three Reflections on Architecture and Horizon -- Multiple Horizons -- References -- 3 Simultaneity -- Room -- House -- Estate -- Parish -- References -- 4 Kinetics -- Bhuleshwar, Mumbai -- Rockefeller Center, New York -- Layering of Contemporary Cities -- Parisian Boulevards -- Piccadilly and St James's, London -- References -- 5 Artifice -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- The English Pleasure Garden -- Sydney Gardens, Bath -- Planten un Blomen, Hamburg -- Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits -- EULA.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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