This book will be the first to offer an analysis of a city through its upper zone and the distinctive architectural features that make up this zone, at once a mode of human experience and a unit of the environment which exceeds single buildings, and so to deploy specially developed concepts (previously used in performance theory and ritual analysis and applied to the image) to further the analysis of the urban scene. What will be described will be a ‘felt environment’ allied to a rhetoric of architecture based upon an entirely original way of dividing up, or conceptualizing, urban space.. This book will offer an insightful yet playful decoding of our experience of the built environment applied to Beijing as an exciting, largely newly-built world-city, whose buildings stand in need of a commentary – especially the official ones and, by no means least, the ‘big name’ ones (CCTV and the Olympic/National stadium or ‘Bird’s Nest’).
CONTENTS
Introduction: ‘Looking up’
PART ONE: The Persistence of Tradition
(Chapter 1) The Lure of Inherited Forms
Interlude. Architectural Debates: The Space/Place Problem
(Chapter 2) Chinese Whispers.
Episode: Architecture and Desire
PART TWO: The Shock of the New. The 20th Century
(Chapter 3) Building the Tower of Babel. The Skyscraper Tradition
Interlude. Architectural Debates: Illusionism & Ideology.
(Chapter 4) City of Glass. Modernism & Beyond
PART THREE: A Unitary Vision? Cityscapes, Old & New
(Chapter 5) Reading Architecture! Points of Orientation
i/ Whose stand-point? Horizon v Stand-alones
ii/ Points of view. Pointed Roof v Flat Roof Traditions
Afterword: Evolution of the Eye
Appendices: Timelines. i/ Architectural archetypes (skiamorphs).
ii/Beijing: a very short architectural history
- Citation du texte
- Peter Nesteruk (Auteur), 2012, Bejing Solarscape: A Visual Anthropology, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/190197
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