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An Architecture of Place: Topology in Practice

An Architecture of Place: Topology in Practice

Lindstrom, Randall S.

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ISBN10: 1032322330
ISBN13: 9781032322339
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 25 2024
Pages: 178
Language: English

Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.

Rigorous but not dense, practical but not trivialising, the book unfolds on three fronts. First, it clearly frames the pertinent aspects of topology--the philosophy of place--importantly differentiating two concepts that architecture regularly conflates: place and space. Second, it rejects the ubiquitous notion that architecture makes place and, instead, reasons that place is what makes architecture and the built environment possible; that place calls for and to architecture; and that architecture is thus invited to listen and respond. Finally, it turns to the matter of designing responses that result not just in more places of architecture (demanding little of design), nor merely in architecture with some sense of place (demanding little more), but, rising above those, responses that constitute an architecture of place (demanding the greatest vigilance but offering the utmost freedom).

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