Architecture : Presence, Language, Place
by NORBERG-SCHULZ, CHRISTIANFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Skira
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Summary
Through an original reflection on the history of architecture and modern building practices Norberg-Schulz analyses man's capacity to perceive, experience and inhabit space. From this theoretical standpoint he seeks to establish a link between modern architecture and reality as a source of inspiration. The volume is a valid instrument that permits the reader to interpret and compare modes considered central to modern design: the relationship between man and space (presence), design and its instruments (language) and architecture in its relationship to the landscape (place). Numerous examples of modern and ancient architecture and urban and landscape systems (Paris, Urbino, Jerusalem) strengthen and exemplify the theoretical notions, further supplementing them with a rich collection of images.
Author Biography
Born in Oslo in 1926, Christian Norberg-Schulz took a degree in architecture at the Zurich Polytechnic in 1949. He studied the history of architecture at Harvard University and in Rome (history of architecture and technology of construction with Pier Luigi Nervi), becoming a professor in 1964. He participated in the Norwegian CIAM group in 1950; other members included Sverre Fehn and Jorn Utzon. Beginning 1966 he was a professor of architecture in the Department of Architecture at Oslo. He was awarded a degree ad honorem at Hannover in 1978, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. Christian Norberg-Schulz died in April 2000
Table of Contents
| Foreword | 7 | (12) | |||
| The new image of architecture | |||||
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| Bibliography | 359 | (4) | |||
| Index of names and places | 363 |
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