Symbolic Landscapes

Symbolic Landscapes

2009 | 420 Pages | PDF | 8 MB

Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. 

Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. 

This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. 

Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds.

 This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.

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Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

Beauty and Islam: 

Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Architecture

2001 | 160 Pages | PDF | 31 MB

Five essays explore aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought in light of contemporary theories, offering new perspectives on Islamic with examples ranging from the Qur'an and the Alhambra to the works of present day artists and philosophers. 

Tracing the roots of Islamic aesthetics back to the works of the philosophers of the Middle Ages such as Avicenna and Averroes, Valerie Gonzalez finds that aesthetic theory in Islam must be seen within the much wider context of parallel thinking on theology, ethics, physics, and metaphysics. 

She balances her analysis of this philosophy (moral, logical, and scientific) of beauty with the equally important analysis of the perceptual experience of beauty.

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Architectural Detailing : Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics.

Architectural Detailing : 

Function,  Constructibility, Aesthetics.

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The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe
 

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Interior Lighting For Designers (4th edition)

Interior Lighting  For Designers (4th edition)

PDF | 292 pages | 5.68 MB

The inspired illumination of any given space can amplify its aesthetic impact and take it from the pedestrian to the sublime.

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The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

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Architectural Detailing : Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics.

Architectural Detailing : Function,  Constructibility, Aesthetics.

by Edward Allen

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Residential Skin & Details

Residential Skin & Details

by Helen Liu

2013 | | English | 271 Pages | PDF | 28.30 MB

Residential Skin & Details provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern residential architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architect from around the world, this book presents 32 of the most recently completed designs for residential architecture. Each project is presented with colour photographs, plans, sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also a descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project. Residential Skin & Details is an excellent reference work for practising architects as well as architecture and design students.

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The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard (Author)

A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

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