Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.



Autorentext

Cameron, Deborah; Markus, Thomas A.



Inhalt

1. Why Language Matters. 2. Buildings and their Texts: A Brief History. 3. Classification. 4. Power. 5. Value. 6. Heritage. 7. Images. Afterword: Some Applications. Bibliography.

Titel
The Words Between the Spaces
Untertitel
Buildings and Language
EAN
9781134763450
ISBN
978-1-134-76345-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
02.09.2003
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
7.78 MB
Anzahl Seiten
208
Jahr
2003
Untertitel
Englisch