Grundbegriffe der Architektur: Das Vokabular räumlicher Situationen

Alban Janson; Florian Tigges

Published by Birkhäuser 2013

Grundbegriffe der Architektur

Das Vokabular räumlicher Situationen

Alban Janson and Florian Tigges

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034608848

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About this book

Dictionary of architectural experience

Architecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture.
This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum.
From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.

Accurate sketches by the author illustrate the text and form a visual counterweight to explain a total of 134 keywords
Complex architectural concepts are explained in detail
Easy to understand for the interested non-professional

Author / Editor information

Alban Janson, Professor at the Institute "Grundlagen der Gestaltung", Architektur der Universität Karlsruhe, since 2013 Emeritus

Reviews

"Eigentlich ein Buch zum Meditieren über Architektur."
In: Industrie Archäologie 1/2013

"[Das Buch] lädt ein, hindurch zu schlendern, sich von einem Begriff zum nächsten führen zu lassen, lesend zu verweilen und nachzudenken über das, was das konkrete Erleben und die Erfahrung von Architektur ausmachen. Insgesamt ein ansprechendes, angemessen und klar gestaltetes Buch, mit gut lesbarem Satz, in handhabbarem Format und mit kraftvoll farbigem, stoffbezogenem Einband; anregend und lesenswert."
Uta Graff in: Bauwelt 37/2013

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(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 396
Keywords: Architektur; Wörterbuch

eBook

Published: March 8, 2013
ISBN: 9783034608848

Hardcover

Published: February 26, 2013
ISBN: 9783034612456