Experiencing Architecture

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler

ISBN 10: 0262680025 / ISBN 13: 9780262680028

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1964

About this Item

245 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark on bottom fore-edge. Light ding / crease to one corner of the cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Experiencing Architecture
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1964
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262680025
• ISBN 13: 9780262680028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good to Very Good

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Synopsis

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author ranges over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence. At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the entire community tool part in forming the dwellings and implements they used. The individual was in fruitful contact with these things; the anonymous houses were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably suitable comeliness. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary people are doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. We cannot, however, go back to the old method of personally supervised handicrafts. We must strive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work the architect does. The basis of competent professionalism is a sympathetic and knowledgeable group of amateurs, of non-professional art lovers."

About the Author

Steen Eiler Flint is Scientific Team Leader for Self-Organizing Systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Fundamental Living Technologies (FLinT) at the University of Southern Denmark. He is also an an External Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.