Building Time
Building Time While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but…
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Building Time
While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture.All buildings exist in time.
So too is the path traced by the sun through a building, and the movements of the human body from room to room. They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay - all of these processes are inscribed in time. Time, this book argues, is the framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key dimension of a building's structure and significance.Building Time presents twelve close readings of buildings
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