Conceptual and Pragmatic

The Dual Approach in Architectural Design, and Contemporary Chinese Resonances

Xi Ye (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
AADR – Art Architecture Design Research (Verlag)
978-3-88778-634-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Xi Ye is an academic at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts at Macau University of Scienceand Technology. Her research focuses on architectural and cultural criticism. Her recentpublications include 'Reviving a sense of poetry: assessing Wang Shu's contemporarydesign practice' (Architectural Research Quarterly, 2022). Xi Ye holds a Master of Artsin Urban Design from Cardiff University, UK and a PhD in architecture from NewcastleUniversity, UK. Conceptual and Pragmatic explores the tension between architects' intellectual idealsand expressions and the everyday experience of architecture and its practice. The bookalternates between the subjectivity and sensory experiences of the user, including itsrelationship to popular culture, tectonics, and vernacular architecture. Reflecting on theprocesses of concept-making and the cultural meaning of architecture, and their impacton architectural design, Xi Ye evaluates the influence of Western architecture on Chinesearchitectural practice and the tension of the former with Chinese cultural traditions andsocial conditions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2023
• Verlagsort: Baunach
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 190 x 245 mm
• Gewicht: 880 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: AADR • Andrew Ballantyne • architectural criticism • architectural design • Architectural subjectivity • architectural theory • Architecture • architecture and culture • Architecture and popular culture • Architecture and society • Architecture and tradition • Art Architecture Design Research • China • chinese architecture • Conceptual and Pragmatic • Conceptual architecture • Cross-cultural architecture • cross-cultural design • Cultural consumption • Cultural Criticism • Cultural Identity in Design • Design • design thinking • Dr. Louie Sieh • Following the nature • From Art to Architecture • Iconic buildings • Pragmatic architecture • Pragmatic design • publicness • Red Brick Art Museum • Sensory experience in architecture • Shanghai West Bund • Spurbuchverlag • Tectonic expression • Tectonics and architecture • The dual process • The ideal and Sensuousness • Traditional sense of poetry • Transformation of the exterior • User-Centered Design • Vernacular architecture • Western influence in architecture • Xi Ye
• ISBN-10: 3-88778-634-3 / 3887786343
• ISBN-13: 978-3-88778-634-2 / 9783887786342
• Zustand: Neuware