Title:
Constructing place : mind and matter
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2003
ISBN:
9780415314657
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Summary
Summary
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.
Author Notes
Author of Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier, Dr. Sarah Menin is a specialist in the work of architectural history and theory.
Table of Contents
| Illustration credits | p. ix |
| Notes on contributors | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvi |
| Foreword | p. xviii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part 1 Mind | |
| Projecting a relationship | |
| 1 The aesthetic in place | p. 41 |
| 2 The sacred environment: an investigation of the sacred and its implications for place-making | p. 55 |
| 3 What use is the genius loci? | p. 66 |
| 4 Constructing place...on the beach | p. 77 |
| 5 Constructing informal places | p. 87 |
| 6 Migrant homes: ethnicity, identity and domestic space culture | p. 99 |
| 7 Communities of dread | p. 111 |
| 8 Design in the city: actors and contexts | p. 121 |
| Philosophy of place | |
| 9 The professor's house: Martin Heidegger's house at Freiburg-im-Breisgau | p. 130 |
| 10 Place-making: the notion of centre | p. 143 |
| 11 Hybrid identities: 'public' and 'private' life in the courtyard houses of Barabazaar, Kolkata, India | p. 154 |
| 12 Diagonal: transversality and worldmaking | p. 166 |
| 13 Modernity and the threshold: psychologizing the places in-between | p. 177 |
| 14 Transparency and catatonia | p. 189 |
| Part 2 Matter | |
| Modern mediation | |
| 15 Siting lives: postwar place-making | p. 205 |
| 16 'Awakening place': Le Corbusier at La Sainte Baume | p. 217 |
| 17 Retreating to dwell: playing and reality at Muuratsalo | p. 228 |
| 18 From place to planet: Jorn Utzon's earthbound platforms and floating roofs | p. 241 |
| 19 The landscape of work: a place for the car | p. 253 |
| Considerate intervention | |
| 20 Rooted modernity: reconstructing memory in architecture | p. 264 |
| 21 Making our place: The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa | p. 277 |
| 22 Architectural spoils: Francesco Venezia and Sicily's spogliatoia | p. 286 |
| 23 Horizon in the Hamar Museum: an instrument of architecture and a way of looking at site | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 325 |
