Origins of Architectural Pleasure

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Some Introductory Comments
A Prologue

1 The Aesthetics of Survival
2 Finding a Good Home
3 Exploring
4 Categorizing and Differentiating
Some Closing Comments

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Grant Hildebrand is Professor of Architecture and Art History at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses (1991).

Summary

Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? This book discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing - and useful to survival - since ancient times.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Hildebrand, Hildebrand Grant
• Assisted by: Grant Hildebrand (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1999
• EAN: 9780520215054
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21505-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture