Imaginative Reasoning in the Shaping of Buildings

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-138-89984-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Imaginative Reasoning in the Shaping of Buildings proposes that buildings evoke the viewer's recreative imagination and this matters to the shaping of buildings. Author Sonit Bafna argues that three topics in human cognition---explanation and interpretation, attention, and imagination---support this idea, and he draws from psychology, studies of vision, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind and science. Includes cases studies such as, a comparison of early twentieth-century German and English houses, a survey of Mies Van Der Rohe's residences, changes in Louis Kahn’s design of a Unitarian church, and pavilions in the royal palace at Fatehpur Sikri in India, and 90 black and white images.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bafna, Sonit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Paradoxical Character of Architecture 2. The Case for a Functional Theory: Explaining Typological Form through Generic Social Function 3: The Limits of Social Function: Problems in the Explanation of Intentional Form Making 4. The Structure of Viewer’s Attention: The Role of Anticipated Attentionality in Shaping Design 5. Imagination as a Generic Cognitive Function 6. The Consequences of the Generic Imaginative Function: The Emergence of Inferable Intentional Structure in Design 7. Broader Implications of the Idea of Imaginative Function: Addressing Long-Standing Issues in Reflective Practice, and Identifying a Program for Research in Architecture. Annotated Bibliography. Image Credits. Index