Architecture : changing spatial transitions between context, construction and human activities / Martin van der Linden.
Linden, Martin van der, author.
2021
NA2542.4
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Title Architecture : changing spatial transitions between context, construction and human activities / Martin van der Linden.
Author Linden, Martin van der, author.
ISBN 9789813346581 (electronic bk.)
9813346582 (electronic bk.)
9789813346574
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4658-1
Published Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-33-4658-1 doi
Call Number NA2542.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 720.1/03
Summary The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 5, 2021).
Series Advances in 21st century human settlements. 2198-2546
Available in Other Form Print version: 9789813346574
Print version: 9789813346598
Print version: 9789813346604
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Transitional space
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