Architecture as Experience

Radical Change in Spatial Practice

Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9781134417513
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material.

The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two alternative historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights. The results are often surprising, inverting the common idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning. This book shows the insight that can be gained from learning about earlier constructions of meaning which have been derived from the same buildings that stand before us today.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Illustration Credits
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Misprisions of Stonehenge
• Chapter 2: ‘The mutability of all things’ The rise, fall and rise of the Meta Sudans fountain in Rome
• Chapter 3: Piranesi’s Pantheon
• Chapter 4: From Medieval Sacred Place to Modern Secular Space Changing Perspectives on the Cathedral and Town of Chartres
• Chapter 5: Paths Of Empowerment Ritual Reinscription of Meaning On The Plan of Amsterdam, 1886–1914
• Chapter 6: Caput mundi ? St Peter’s and the Deterritorialised church
• Chapter 7: Places And Memory Multiple Readings of a Plaza in Paris During the Commemoration of the French Revolution
• Chapter 8: Three views of ‘frontier’ at the World’s Columbian Exposition1
• Chapter 9: The erasure of history From Victorian asylum to ‘Princess Park Manor’
• Chapter 10: If walls could talk Exploring the dimensions of heterotopia at the Four Seasons Istanbul Hotel
• Chapter 11: Ritual as radical change The burial of the Unknown Soldier and ‘ways of using’ the space of Washington, DC, 11 November 1921
• Chapter 12: London Bridge revisited
• Bibliography