The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading

The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading
ISBN-10
1472453018
ISBN-13
9781472453013
Category
Architecture
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2015-09-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler

Description

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. It proposes that Modern architecture is too diverse to be reduced to a few common formal or ornamental features. Instead, by relying on the viewer’s innate psycho-physiological perceptive abilities, the sensual and intuitive understandings of composition, form, and space are emphasized.

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