Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Take One Building : Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives of the Seattle Central Library

Av Ruth Conroy Dalton, Christoph Hölscher

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This book evaluates how we experience and understand buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background. With reference to Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library, the book illustrates a range of different methods available through its application to the building. By seeing such a variety of different research methods applied to one setting, it provides the opportunity for researchers to understand how tools can highlight various aspects of a building and how those different methods can augment, or complement, each other.Unique to this book are contributions from internationally renowned academics from fields including architecture, ethnography, architectural criticism, phenomenology, sociology, environmental psychology and cognitive science, all of which are united by a single, real-world application, the Seattle Central Library.This book will be of interest to architects and students of architecture as well as disciplines such as ethnography, sociology, environmental psychology, and cognitive science that have an interest in applying research methods to the built environment.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2016-12-05
Mått: 174 x 246 x 17 mm
Vikt: 680 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 230
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781472471147

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Ruth Conroy Dalton is Professor of Building Usability and Visualisation at the University of Northumbria atNewcastle. She is an architect and her research interests are on the relationship between the spatial layout of buildingsand environments and how people understand, and interact in, those spaces.Christoph Hölscher is Professor of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich. He is a psychologist by training, and thefocus of his work is at the intersection of spatial cognition and architectural design.

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Buildings operate in a multitude of ways, they are structural, constructional, social cultural and aesthetic. They modify the environment and act as mechanisms for generating, or inhibiting social contact. This makes the question of how to research them one that is as rich as it is varied. This compilation of essays, all about one building, brings together authors each with different perspectives and methodologies. It could be considered a primer in the possible suite of approaches open to the researcher, or taken together it makes for a rare attempt to synthesis across disciplines. It gives about the best example I have seen of what a ‘trans-disciplinary’ approach to architectural research could look like.Professor Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett, UCLHow buildings work for their occupiers and how design icons perform for their users is an imprecise and understudied field. The connections between design aspiration and their impact on people are rarely understood despite the huge capital investments that buildings command. This book brings a fresh and rigorous perspective to the field, founded in original and compelling research. It should become the bible for anyone interested in commissioning, designing and evaluating how buildings can add value to society.Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, London School of Economics

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