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Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination
Branko Mitrovic
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and colour, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?
For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respond to these and similar questions by relying on psychological theories asserting there is no innocent eye, that we think only in language, and that human visuality results from pre-existing, conceptual knowledge. Dramatic breakthroughs in philosophy and psychology over ... Read more
What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and colour, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?
For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respond to these and similar questions by relying on psychological theories asserting there is no innocent eye, that we think only in language, and that human visuality results from pre-existing, conceptual knowledge. Dramatic breakthroughs in philosophy and psychology over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933788
SKU
V9780813933788
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About Branko Mitrovic
Branko Mitrović is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand and the author of Learning from Palladio and Philosophy for Architects.
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