Dwelling with Architecture

Roderick Kemsley, Christopher Platt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415569040
• eBook ISBN: 9781136260919
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses.

That the domestic realm and the landscape can be vehicles for significant architectural insights is hardly an original observation. However this book seeks to bring the two topics together in a unique way. In exploring a building type that lies on the cusp of what is commonly understood as 'building' and 'architecture', it asks fundamental questions about what the very nature of architecture is. Who indeed is the architect and what is their role in the process of creating meaningful buildings?

Index

Page numbers in italic indicate photographs and drawings.

Aalto, Alvar 47

adaptation of buildings 49–51, 72–75, 73, 78–79

Africa: Cameroon 82, 119, 120; Royal Netherlands Embassy, Ethiopia 123–124; West Africa 120

architects: constraints, as creative necessity 47–48; education 3, 4, 209–216, 219–220; experience 211–212, 214, 219; non-professional 118, 122, 124; perspective 175; role of 196

architectural spectrum of buildings (examples) 10, 222

architecture: basic function of 216; contemporary 125–128; links with building industry 219–220; necessary conditions 207–209; pan-international influences 123–124; tradition in 125–128

Arduaine see Tigh na Dobhran, Scotland

Auchoish, Argyll, Scotland 48–59, 49, 53, 57, 157, 222

Bachelard, Gaston 27, 28, 83, 88, 174

Ballantyne, Iain 28, 30

‘Balm,’ Colin Johnstone 76

The Belvedere Torso, (statue) 75

blackhouses, Isle of Lewis 192

Boathouse Cottage, Balquhidder, Scotland 147–152, 147, 148, 149, 157

Bruder Klaus Kapelle, Eifel, Germany 137, 138

Buchanan Street, Glasgow 125, 125

building industry, links with architecture 219–220

building workshop for children 210

buildings: adaptation of 49–51, 72–75, 73, 78–79; character of 59–63, 174; choreographic functions 18; cultural context 75, 82, 117; existing 50–51; groupings of 157; link wit...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• PREFACE: DUNVEGAN CASTLE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Dedication
• ONE Introduction
• TWO The experience of place
• THREE Constraints and preoccupations
• FOUR Dwelling and houses
• FIVE The building in the landscape
• SIX The innocent and the sophisticated
• SEVEN The cycle of learning
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
• INDEX