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Zusatztext "The book is successful at explaining the concept of 'fit' and how we can go about making sure it is included in the design process. I agree that having a dialogue around this issue will improve the architectural landscape as it considers the impact building(s) will have years after being completed. . . . Geddes has inspired me to consider the symbiotic relationship humans have with architecture." ---Isabelle Kim! Spacing Informationen zum Autor Robert Geddes (1923-2023) was an architect, urbanist, and teacher. He was dean emeritus of the Princeton School of Architecture; Henry Luce Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Urbanism, and History at New York University; and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the National Academy of Design. The American Institute of Architects honored his professional firm for its "design quality, respect for the environment, and social concern." Klappentext "In this elegant little book, mixing aphorism and example, Robert Geddes argues for the importance of 'making it fit' and shows us the many ways of doing this. His manifesto is both provocation and enlightenment." --Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study "Robert Geddes has written a lucid, perceptive, and wise book about the fundamental elements of architecture, including the basic needs that it addresses, as well as the wide range of architectural approaches and styles available to the designer and practitioner today. He does not, fortunately, propose easy solutions to the deep challenges facing contemporary architects and urban planners, but instead offers principles and considerations that can help them create works that can be 'fit' for their purposes, places, and times." --Neil Rudenstine, president emeritus, Harvard University " Fit is a pleasure to read--lucid, wonderfully lively, and continuously interesting. Geddes's mode of arguing by quotation and illustration is very appealing, like talking with a great conversationalist with a well-stocked mind and library. And there is a real moral to the book's argument about what our architecture needs more of." --Alan Ryan, Princeton University and University of Oxford "This is an enchanting book. Robert Geddes admirably makes the case for architecture as a social art in which function and aesthetics are complementary rather than mutually exclusive. The book provides an excellent primer for both makers and consumers of architecture--a checklist of issues to be addressed during the design process, and a lens through which to see and appreciate architecture." --Urs P. Gauchat, dean of the College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology Zusammenfassung Why do we design where we live and work? Why do we not just live in nature, or in chaos? Why does society care about architecture? Why does it really matter? This book answers these questions through a fresh examination of the basic purposes and elements of architecture - beginning in nature, and combining function and expression. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 The Origin of Architecture Is Nature 11 The Task of Architecture Is Function & Expression 36 The Legacy of Architecture Is Form> 70 Notes 101 Index 107 ...
