Main entry:

Kakalis, Christos, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and silence / Christos P. Kakalis.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
©2020

Description:

xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; plans ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
"This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process. Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Prez-Gmez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience."--Page 4 of cover
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process.0Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Perez-Gomez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience.

ISBN:

1138345571 (hardcover)
9781138345577 (hardcover)
(ePub ebook)
9780429795190
(PDF ebook)
9780429795206
(Mobipocket ebook)
9780429795183
(ebook)
9780429437823

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Silence.
Architecture Philosophie.

Added entries:

Malpas, Jeff, interviewee.
Pérez Gómez, Alberto, interviewee.
Routledge research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306796
Call No.: BIB 252345
Status: Available