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From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world. The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity. Von 1960 bis 1980 erlebten Ost-und Westeuropa eine Bauproduktion von bis dahin unbekanntem Ausmaß. Kybernetik, Planungswissenschaft und Soziologie sowie neue Möglichkeiten von Technologie und Produktion eröffneten in Architektur und Raumplanung ein Denken in Prozessen, Systemen und großen Maßstäben, das technokratische und utopische Konzepte begünstigte. Architekten und Planer verstanden sich zunehmend als Gestalter umfassender Infra- und Megastrukturen einer technisierten Lebenswelt. Das internationale Autorenteam behandelt diese Entwicklungen vor dem Hintergrund des Wissenstransfers zwischen Ost und West. Es konstatiert einen bis heute nachwirkenden Umschwung: Rezession, gesellschaftliche Umbrüche und Umweltprobleme führten zur Kritik an bisherigen Konzeptionen von Modernität.

Architecture --- Architecture and society --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to 'speak architecturally' but also the innate relations between the artist's and architect's work, how they are distinct, and in inspiring ways, how they might relate through questions of built form. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, cultural historians and theorists.

Architecture --- Architecture and society. --- Artists and architects. --- City planning --- Architects and artists --- Architects --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually"-with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads." He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the "vast, flowing" Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome, where "simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination."Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.

Architecture --- Architecture and society. --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Environmental psychology --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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"In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities. Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves 'at home'. Scholars from the US, UK and Australasia re-visit and re-think interiors by Bonnard, Matisse, Degas and Vuillard, as well as the great spaces of early modernity; the drawing room in Rossetti's house, hallways in Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Paris attic of the Brothers Goncourt; Schutte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen, to explore how interior making has changed from the Victorian to the modern period. From the smallest room - the bathroom - to the spacious verandas of Singapore Deco, Domestic Interiors focuses on modern rooms 'imaged' and imagined, it builds a distinct body of knowledge around the interior, interiority, representation and modernity, and creates a rich resource for students and scholars in art, architecture and design history."--Publisher's description.

Home in art. --- Rooms in art. --- Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities, and more specifically on their open spaces from a psychological, sociological and aesthetic point of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable-accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness-can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

City planning --- Open spaces --- Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Built environment --- Land use --- Social aspects --- Human factors