Architecture and Silence Contributor(s): Kakalis, Christos P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138345571 ISBN-13: 9781138345577 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation - Architecture | History - General |
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 190 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process. Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience. |