Title & Author:

Ordering space : types in architecture and design / edited by Karen A. Franck, Lynda H. Schneekloth.

Publication:

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1994.

Description:

383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type : prison or promise? / Lynda H. Schneekloth and Karen A. Franck -- Notions of the inhabited / Lynda H. Schneekloth -- Archetypes as "natural language" for place making / Mike Brill -- A built landscape typology : the language of the land we live in / Patrick Condon -- Farm type in the American midwest : a reflection of government policy / Hemalata C. Dandekar -- Zoning as a tool for regulating family type in American communities / Marsha Ritzdorf -- Terminologies and types : making sense of some types of dwellings and cities / Anthony D. King -- Social practice and building typologies / Thomas A. Markus -- Typological thinking in architectural practice / Martin Symes -- The question of type / Julia W. Robinson -- An artist's perspective on type / Nancy Wolf -- In and out of type / Jean La Marche -- Memory and the making of places / Frances Downing -- Type and the possibility of an architectural scholarship / Guido Francescato -- Type as analytical tool : reinterpretation and application / Roderick J. Lawrence -- Getting to know the built landscape : typomorphology / Anne Vernez Moudon -- Typification and the building of society : "the absent patron" / David Vanderburgh -- Just not my type : gender, convention, and the uses of uncertainty / Alice T. Friedman -- Types are us / Karen A. Franck.

Summary:

Explores the meanings, applications, and implications of building type in architecture and design. Nineteen essays by architects, landscape architects, historians, and planners offer diverse views on the language of building types, spatial order, and types as a research tool for uncovering the social, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the built e.

ISBN:

0442012330 (paperback)
9780442012335 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Classification.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.
Architecture
Projeto de arquitetura.
Arquitetura (teoria)
architectuur
ontwerp
design
layout
grondplannen
floor plans
theorie
theory
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
ruimtelijke ordening
physical planning
planning
kunst
arts
vorm
shape
Architecture (General)
Architectuur (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Classification
Authors' inscriptions. PPA

Added entries:

Franck, Karen A.
Schneekloth, Lynda H.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118772
Call No.: ID NA2500.O73; ID:95-B169
Status: Available