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Author:   Gerald Adler ,  Timothy Brittain-Catlin ,  Gordana Fontana-Giusti (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415687126

ISBN 10:   0415687128
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   20 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Gerald Adler Excursus 1: Surface Scale in Hackney Natalie Rosencwaig Part 1: Scale Before the Twentieth Century Gerald Adler 1. The Role of Small Scale Images by Wenceslaus Hollar in the Rebuilding of London in the Late Seventeenth Century Gordana Fontana-Giusti 2. Mildendo and Masdar: A Tale of Two Cities Adam Sharr 3. ‘Examining the Knots…Counting the Bricks’: John Ruskin’s Innocent Eye Stephen Kite 4. The Worm’s Eye as a Measure of Man: Axonometry in Architectural Representation Hilary Bryon Excursus 2: Scale and Tabula Rasa Natalie de Vries Part 2: Scale in Art and Perception 5. Colour Scales Fay Zika 6. Scales of Interaction: Aligning the Qualitative with the Quantitative in Music and Architecture Fiona Smyth 7. Mind-Building, Adrian Stokes, Scale and Psychoanalysis Janet Sayers 8. Sublime Indifference Helen Mallinson 9. Measuring Up: Measurement and Scale in Conceptual Art Elise Noyez 10.Scaling Haptics – Haptic Scaling: Studying Scale and Scaling in the Haptic Design Process of Two Architects who Lost their Sight Peter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen 11. Scale Adjustment in Architecture and Music Richard Coyne Excursus 3: Domestic Scale in Oxford Igea Troiani Part 3: Scale in the Twentieth Century 12. Thos Logos Pathos: Architects and their Chairs Jonathan Foote 13. ‘Halfway between the Electron and the Universe’: Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia Simon Richards 14. Little Boxes Gerald Adler 15. Scale and Identity in the Housing Projects of Coderch Michael Pike 16. The Politics of Scale in the Architecture of Brodsky and Utkin Michael Ostwald

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Like so many Routledge academic publications, it mines a seam of thought from the edges of accepted discourse. Its wider understandings of the term 'scale' stray intelligently into territories beyond conventional architectural thinking. - RIBA Journal

Like so many Routledge academic publications, it mines a seam of thought from the edges of accepted discourse. Its wider understandings of the term 'scale' stray intelligently into territories beyond conventional architectural thinking. - RIBA Journal

Author Information

Gerald Adler runs the BA (Hons) Architecture programme at the Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, UK, where he is Deputy Head of School. Timothy Brittain-Catlin is Senior Lecturer at the Kent School of Architecture. Gordana Fontana-Giusti is an architect specialising in architectural theory who has been involved in establishing postgraduate studies and research at the Kent School of Architecture. The editors are members of CREAte, the Centre for Research in European Architecture at the Kent School of Architecture.

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