Children as place-makers : the innate architect in all of us / Simon Unwin.

Main entry:

Unwin, Simon, 1952- author.

Title & Author:

Children as place-makers : the innate architect in all of us / Simon Unwin.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Description:

viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Analysing Architecture Notebooks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the verbs of architecture -- Relating to the world -- Place creation -- Making places with ourselves -- Defining place -- Places for games -- Circle -- Box -- Building places -- Places of the imagination.

Summary:

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. As children we make places spontaneously: on the beach, in woodland, around our homes... Those places are evidence of a natural language of architecture we all share. Beginning with the child as seed and agent of the places it makes, initial sections of Children as Place-makers illustrate the key `verbs' that drive that natural language of architecture. Later sections look at the core importance of the circle of place, how as children we are drawn to inhabit boxes, and the narrative possibilities that arise when place is linked with imagination. The principal messages of this Notebook are that it is by place-making we make sense of the space of the world in which we live, and that the first step in becoming a professional architect is to re-awaken the innate architect inside each of us.

ISBN:

9781138046009 (hbk)
1138046000 (hbk)
9781138046016 (pbk)
1138046019 (pbk)
(ebk)
9781315171623
electronic publication
9781351695411
electronic book
9781351695428
Mobipocket electronic book
9781351695404

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Analysing architecture notebooks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305537
Call No.: BIB 251504
Status: Available

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