Experiencing Architecture

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Verschaffel, B. The interior as architectural principle. Palgrave Commun. 2017, 3, 2. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef][ Green Version] Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hon. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947.

Experiencing architecture : Rasmussen, Steen Eiler, 1898-1990

The symposium ran an open call for papers, inviting submissions from researchers and practitioners from all disciplines and career stages. PERECEPTION: a paper on the French writer, Georges Perec, exploring his readings and writings of our physical and imagined experiences of architecture. articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without Grounded exploration of architecture’s (and really much of art and design’s) fundamental principals — insofar as those principles are grounded on, as the title suggests, our experience of architecture. In many ways the writing is a phenomenology of space, form, texture.

In addition the conclusion, I think, doesn’t do the full book justice, maybe cross referencing the chapters or built examples would have been more helpful; or, even, including more examples from the time. There are great lessons from historical examples, but it doesn’t have to be a history book, and the contemporary examples that Rasmussen references are very helpful as they provide a clearer snapshot on the architecture canon in the 1960s.

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On 15 June 1934 he married Karen Margrethe Schrøder (12 November 1904 - 31 March 1985), daughter of economist and later Danish National Bank manager Frederik Carl Gram Schrøder og Astrid Koefoed. He is the father of the linguist Una Canger. He was a close friend of the author Karen Blixen. Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a standard text in architectural schools and also for me when I began my studies more years ago than I care to remember. A classic architectural theory book, easy to read with some unique insights but with a couple of large flaws. Grounded exploration of architecture’s (and really muc Bach’s fugues, with their many contrapuntal harmonies, whichwould be lost in vast basilicas, could be successfully performed inSt. Thomas’s, just as the pure voices of the famous St. Thomasboys’ choir receive full justice there.

Something else I love about this book is that often especially in the first generation of modernist architects Modernism is shown as a heroic break with the past. It often was but by describing buildings in terms of their effect on you Rasmussen can look past the style of the buildings to their underlying principles and place them in a natural continuam. Palladio and Corbusier are compared and assessed based on the same basic underlying concepts this takes the heat out of the style wars and allows for better comparison and appreciation of buildings that have different styles but similar underlying principles. Summary However insights into Danish modernism and classical architeture are counterbalanced by a fundamental misunderstanding of Japanese architecture which undermines the whole book. The Author Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish Architect born in 1898, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918 so he was taught in the Beaux-Arts tradition, before modernism. He started his own office in 1919 and so was a young Architect coming through the profession during the birth of modernism an exciting time to witness. Doges palace decoration can be understood in the same way if the marble is understood more as a sheet of material.