WORLD S GREATEST ARCHITECT. MAKINH, MEANING AND NETWORK CULTURE
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- EAN: 9780262633642
- ISBN: 978-0-262-63364-2
- Editorial: MIT PRESS
- Año de la edición: 2008
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 15 X 23 cm.
- Páginas: 160
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teoría: arquitectura y arte
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Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed on objects. (On a door: "push" or "pull.") Today, information is digitally encoded (dematerialized) and displayed (rematerialized) to become part of many different objects, at one moment appearing on a laptop screen and at another, perhaps, on a building facade (as in Times Square). Well-designed artifacts succeed in being both useful and meaningful. In World's Greatest Architect, William Mitchell offers a series of snapshots'short essays and analyses'that examine the systems of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities, and global networks.
