Context : Architecture and the Genius of Place.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parry, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2015.
Series:Architectural Design Primer.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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 YorkLayering 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.