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Arkitekturforskning - problem och perspektiv. En konferens anordnad av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
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The life of the place: A phenomenological commentary on Bill Hillier's theory of space syntax
No full textThis article suggests that architect Bill Hillier's theory of space syntax has significant implications for a phenomenology of architecture and place. Hillier demonstrates that the physical and human worlds are intimately related through the spatial morphology of building and settlement layouts. In this sense, his work illustrates one aspect of a central phenomenological theme - human-immersion-in-world. A phenomenological extension would ask, among other questions, what different styles of lifeworld - a person or group's everyday world of taken-for-grantedness - relate to what patterns of paths, circulation, movement, interaction, and encounter
The Influence of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition on the Development of Functionalism and Modernism in Norwegian Post-war Architecture
Get PDFThe title of this lecture, this manuscript, was given two weeks ahead of its delivery as part of the Norwegian doctoral procedure in connection with the dissertation Architecture and Rhetoric: Text and Design in Architectural Competitions, Oslo 1939-90, in September 1996. The presentation here comprises around one third of the illustrations used in the lecture
User Oriented Architectural Design in a Critical Perspective
Get PDFCriticism of authoritarian practice in architecture has led to efforts by architects to take users' points of view into account and to develop an adaptive model of planning. Yet results have not been convincing. A critical look at a few attempts leads to questions about the existing relationships between planning activities, the development of organizational culture, and about practical morality within an organization when groups of users hold conflicting values and purposes
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No full textAlgirdas Julien Greimas: "Toward a Topological Semiotics" (in The Social Sciences: A Semiotic View)Charles Sanders Peirce: "Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs" and "The Fixation of Belief" (both in The Philosophy of Peirce, ed. Justus Buchler
