Constructing place : mind and matter / / edited by Sarah Menin.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Menin, Sarah.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 330 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The aesthetic in place / Arnold Berleant -- The sacred environment : an investigation of the sacred and its implications for place-making / Fran Speed -- What use is the genius loci? / Ian Thompson -- Constructing place ... on the beach / Simon Unwin -- Constructing informal places / Peter Kellett -- Migrant homes : ethnicity, identity and domestic space culture / Didem Kilickiran -- Communities of dread / Simon Richards -- Design in the city : actors and contexts / Ali Madanipour -- The professor's house : Martin Heidegger's house at Freiburg-im-Breisgau / Adam Sharr -- Place-making : the notion of centre / Max Robinson -- Hybrid identities : 'public' and 'private' life in the courtyard houses of Barabazaar, Kolkata, India / Martin Beattie -- Diagonal : transversality and worldmaking / Andrew Ballantyne -- Modernity and the threshold : psychologizing the places in-between / Stephen Kite -- Transparency and catatonia / Kati Blom -- Siting lives : postwar place-making / Nathaniel Coleman -- 'Awakening place' : Le Corbusier at La Sainte Baume / Flora Samuel -- Retreating to dwell : playing and reality at Muuratsalo / Sarah Menin -- From place to planet : Jrn Utzon's earthbound platforms and floating roofs / Richard Weston -- The landscape of work : a place for the car / Brian Carter -- Rooted modernity : reconstructing memory in architecture / Samia Rab -- Making our place : the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa / Michael P.T. Linzey -- Architectural spoils : Francesco Venezia and Sicily's spogliatoia / Annette Condello -- Horizon in the Hamar Museum : an instrument of architecture and a way of looking at site / Suzanne Ewing.