Lance LaVine, Fred Turner “Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture"
University of Minnesota Press | 2001-03 | ISBN:0816634777 | PDF | 207 pages | 11,1 Mb
In Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture, Lance LaVine shows that in architecture, as practiced and taught today, the technological aspect of the profession-how weight is distributed, how heat flow is regulated, and how light is permitted to enter-has been ceded to engineers and other technical specialists. And in doing so, he argues, architects have lost sight of one of architecture's most important purposes, that of providing a literal and figurative window onto the world.