Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

Dictionary of architectural experience Architecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture. This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum. From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail. * Accurate sketches by the author illustrate the text and form a visual counterweight to explain a total of 134 keywords * Complex architectural concepts are explained in detail * Easy to understand for the interested non-professional Access Accessibility and exclusivity Angle and corner Appeal Arcade Architecture Ascent Atmosphere Axis Base Beauty Body, architectural Body, human Capacity Ceiling Cell Cellar Centring Circulation Closure Colour Column Comfortableness Complexity Composition Concavity and convexity Concept, architectural Confrontation Context Courtyard Covering Darkness Density, spatial Depth Detail Directionality Door and gate Dramaturgy Dwelling Empathy Enfilade Entrance (theatrical) Event Expansiveness and constriction Experience Expression Extension Facade Field Figure of movement Filter Flowing space Folding Force field Form character Furnishing Gallery Garden Gathering Gaze Gestalt Gesture, spatial Ground Hall Haptic qualities Heaviness and lightness Image Incorporation Ingress and exit Inside and outside Interior Intermediate space Intimation Introduction Inversion Invitation character Joint Landscape Layering Light Materiality Meaning Measure Memory Monument Movement Odour Opening Order Orientation Ornamentation Oscillation Patina Personal space Perspective Picturesque Place Plane Poché Porosity Postures Proportion Raumplan Readability Residence Resonance space Rhythm, spatial Ritual Roaming Roof Route Row Scale Scene Screening Sensory perception Sequence Sign Simplicity Situation Size Sound Space Space-body continuum Space-containing wall Space shadow Spatial structure Square and street Stairs Structure Sublimity Surface Symbol Symmetry Synaesthesia Tectonics Territory Theme, architectural Threshold Time Tower Transparency Type Urban design Use Views into/out of Virtuality Wall Warmth and cold Window

Architecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture.
This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum.
From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.

Wrterbuch der architektonischen Erfahrung Wie wir Rume erleben Architektur wird erlebt mit Intellekt und mit allen Sinnen, in der Bewegung und im Gebrauch. Doch um darber tatschlich zutreffend zu reden und zu urteilen, ist eine Klrung der Begriffe ntig, wenn die Schwammigkeit vermieden werden soll, die auf diesem Gebiet oft vorherrscht. Dieses Wrterbuch gibt ein Vokabular an die Hand, das ein Sprechen ber Architektur jenseits der Erklrung konstruktiver Zusammenhnge oder der Beschreibung architektonischer Formen ermglicht, unter der Verwendung gelufiger Begriffe wie Dach, Sockel, Wand und Achse oder Proportion. Es geht darum, das Erleben von Architektur zu Wie trgt sie zum Erleben einer Situation bei? Etwa in der Inszenierung einer Eingangssituation oder mit der Wegefhrung durch ein Museum. Von A bis Z, von Ablesbarkeit ber Fenster, Kontext, Orientierung, Patina, Raumgefge, Symmetrie und Tektonik bis hin zu Weite (und Enge) oder Zentrum werden die wichtigsten Begriffe der Architektursprache differenziert und vielschichtig erklrt. Przise Handskizzen des Autors illustrieren den Text und bilden ein visuelles Gegengewicht zur Erluterung von insgesamt 139 Stichworten. Trade, Policy, and International Adjustments covers the theoretical issues, macroeconomics, and mathematical methods in the field of international economics. The book summarizes and illustrates the various contributions to the field of international economics. The text presents studies on the issues in international trade and commercial policies; voluntary export restrictions; application of a geometric technique to a multidimensional problem concerning the Stolper-Samuelson theorem; the symmetry theorem between tariffs and quotas in the context of a monetary economy under flexible exchange ra