Narrative architecture /
Coates, Nigel.
Narrative architecture / Nigel Coates. - 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. - AD primers. . - AD primers. .
Preface 008 Chapter 1 The Long Perspective 013 Chapter 2 Radical Terrain 033 Chapter 3 NATO 055 Chapter 4 Story Buildings 080 Chapter 5 Practice in Person 112 Chapter 6 Pure 'Narrativity' 132 Epilogue 158 Bibliography 162 Index 164
To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution.
9780470057452 (hbk.) 0470057459 (hbk.) 0470057440 (pbk.) 9780470057445 (pbk.)
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
NA2760 / .C638 2012
724 / C.N.N
Narrative architecture / Nigel Coates. - 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. - AD primers. . - AD primers. .
Preface 008 Chapter 1 The Long Perspective 013 Chapter 2 Radical Terrain 033 Chapter 3 NATO 055 Chapter 4 Story Buildings 080 Chapter 5 Practice in Person 112 Chapter 6 Pure 'Narrativity' 132 Epilogue 158 Bibliography 162 Index 164
To architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution.
9780470057452 (hbk.) 0470057459 (hbk.) 0470057440 (pbk.) 9780470057445 (pbk.)
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
NA2760 / .C638 2012
724 / C.N.N