Sayers, Janet V. (2012) Mind-Building, Adrian Stokes, Scale and Psychoanalysis. In: Adler, Gerald and Brittain-Catlin, Timothy and Fontana-Giusti, Gordana, eds. Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-68712-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35430)
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Abstract
Scale is a word which underlies much of architectural and urban design practice, its history and theory, and its technology. Its connotations have traditionally been linked with the humanities, in the sense of relating to human societies and to human form. ‘To build in scale’ is an aspiration that is usually taken for granted by most of those involved in architectural production, as well as by members of the public; yet in a world where value systems of all kinds are being questioned, the term has come under renewed scrutiny. The older, more particular, meanings in the humanities, pertaining to classical Western culture, are where the sense of scale often resides in cultural production.
Scale may be traced back, ultimately, to the discovery of musical harmonies, and in the arithmetic proportional relationship of the building to its parts. One might question the continued relevance of this understanding of scale in the global world of today. What, in other words, is culturally specific about scale? And what does scale mean in a world where an intuitive, visual understanding is often undermined or superseded by other senses, or by hyper-reality? Structured thematically in three parts, this book addresses various issues of scale. The book includes an introduction which sets the scene in terms of current architectural discourse and also contains a visual essay in each section. It is of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners in architecture and architectural theory as well as to students in a range of other disciplines including art history and theory, geography, anthropology and landscape architecture.
Item Type: | Book section |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | M.L. Barnoux |
Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2013 16:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:19 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35430 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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