Narrative architecture / Nigel Coates.

By:

Coates, Nigel

Material type: Text

TextSeries: AD primersPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012Description: 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780470057452 (hbk.)
0470057459 (hbk.)
0470057440 (pbk.)
9780470057445 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

724 22 C.N.N

LOC classification:

NA2760 .C638 2012

Online resources:

Abstract

Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library B9	Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Architectural)	724 C.N.N (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00009432

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.

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