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Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material. The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two alternative historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights. The results are often surprising, inverting the common idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning. This book shows the insight that can be gained from learning about earlier constructions of meaning which have been derived from the same buildings that stand before us today.
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Architecture as Experience
Architecture as Experience looks at how many places are perceived and understood across intervals of time and culture. Landscapes, buildings and urban environments are reconfigured in incommensurable ways by different groups, with their own particular identities, concepts and preoccupations. Each chapter establishes the continuity of a particular place under discussion and shows it in at least two different historical perspectives, in which recognizable features are shown to offer different experiences of architecture and space. The results are often surprising, because we tend to have an idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning, so it can be rewarding to learn about earlier constructions of meaning that involve the same building. Architecture as Experience explores concepts such as heritage, authorial intentions, ethnocentric or class viewpoints, literary and scientific analyses as well as instances where one culture has been overtaken by another. Theoretically informed essays and good illustrations provide a valuable resource for a range of readers from academics and students to the interested general audience. Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Southampton. Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Centre for Tectonic Cultures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Contributors: Sarah Bonnemaison, Susan M. Dixon, Laura H. Hollengreen, Zeynep Kezer, Hélène Lipstadt, Christine Macy, Elizabeth Marlowe, Donald McNeill, Nancy Stieber, Deborah E.B. Weiner
Other titles available from Routledge Reading Architectural History Dana Arnold What is Architecture? Edited by Andrew Ballantyne Constructing Place Edited by Sarah Menin Architecture – the Subject is Matter Jonathan Hill Actions of Architecture Jonathan Hill This is Not Architecture Edited by Kester Rattenbury Rethinking Architecture Edited by Neil Leach Intersections Architectural histories and critical theories Edited by Iain Borden and Jane Rendell For further information and to order from our online catalogue visit our website at www.routledge.com
Architecture as Experience Radical change in spatial practice
Edited by Dana Arnold and Andrew Ballantyne
First published 2004 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. © 2004 Selection and editorial material, Dana Arnold and Andrew Ballantyne; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cat