Architecture and Silence

Author:   Christos P. Kakalis (Newcastle University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138345577


Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Architecture and Silence


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This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process. Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge. In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience.

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Author:   Christos P. Kakalis (Newcastle University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138345577


ISBN 10:   1138345571
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I Performativity 1. Hesychasm, Silence and the Stillness of Mount Athos Interruption I: Scoring Silence-Scapes 2. Walking in Silence / Urban Encounters co-authored with Stella Mygdali 3. Hot Air Balloon Movements to Stillness: Uplifting Atmospherics and the Architecture of Flight 4. Narrating the Spatiality of Silence: Drawing from the Silence of Samuel Beckett and Andrei Tarkovsky 5. Silence in Place: An Interview with Jeff Malpas Part II Communication 6. Silence, Music and Architectural Design: Stillness and Transparency in the work of Arvo Pärt and John Cage Interruption II: Silence, Liminality and Monastic Space 7. Silence in Architectural Education co-authored with Olga Ioannou Interruption III: Silence, Emptiness and Architectural Design co-authored with Iván J. Márquez Muñoz 8. Notating Silences and Absences co-authored with Rachel Armstrong, Rolf Hughes and Simone Feraccina 9. Keeping Silent to Listen: An Interview with Alberto Pѐrez-Gόmez

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Christos P. Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at Newcastle University, UK.

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