Constructing Place

by Sarah Menin (Editor)

This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.

Genres: Architecture

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2003

Reviews

[Ziyad Hasanin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really demanding and very philosophical -sometimes to the point of incomprehensible jargon, or at least jargon that needs a whole university module to be able to grasp; and this is not mere "theory", but a more philosophical approach to understand what constitutes place, mentally and physically, and builds over several architectural theories and terminologies.

I have no clue why this was a suggested reading for our third year (or was it second?); although I enjoy theory it was really demanding and consuming; however a few essays really had insightful ideas.