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Architecture : presence, language and place / Christian Norberg-Schulz.

By: Norberg-Schulz, Christian [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Milan : Skira Editore, 2000Publisher: ©2000Description: 370 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 8881187000 (paperback).Subject(s): Architecture -- History | Architecture -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 720

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword: The new image of architecture (p. 7)
  • I. Presence (p. 19)
  • 1. Use (p. 31)
  • 2. Comprehension (p. 59)
  • 3. Implementation (p. 91)
  • II. Language (p. 125)
  • 4. Typology (p. 131)
  • 5. Morphology (p. 159)
  • 6. Topology (p. 189)
  • III. Place (p. 221)
  • 7. Customs (p. 231)
  • 8. Style (p. 269)
  • 9. Interaction (p. 309)
  • Bibliography (p. 359)
  • Index of names and places (p. 363)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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