Nigel C. Lewis

Design and Order (eBook, PDF)

Perceptual Experience of Built Form - Principles in the Planning and Making of Place

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Produktbeschreibung

Teaches the principles behind the successful planning and creation of inspired built forms and urban places This book offers an integrated understanding of both the principles and the perception of the design of built environments and public spaces. It outlines the fundamental characteristics that are evident in the creation of built form and illustrates how they determine the experience of resultant places. It also consolidates the key criteria that need to be taken into consideration in the development of these areas. All of the above-mentioned aims to provide designers with a solid understanding of the implications of their decisions on perception and behavior during the creation of new spaces. Design and Order: Perceptual experience of built form - Principles in the Planning and Making of Place starts by examining the designing of natural environments and the affect that they have on humans. It teaches readers how people experience and are shaped by a space--via their eyes, brain, and overall perception. It then instructs on proper grammar of form and syntax so that designers can understand how to pursue design processes systematically. The book then takes readers through this process of designing, informing them on the principles of form, function, configuration, communication, organization, color and contrasts, building structures, good practice and more. * Seeks to improve the methodological approach to the planning and design of buildings * Broadly address all of the functions that impact the realization of new built and urban form * Outlines the fundamental characteristics that are evident in the design of built forms and illustrates how these characteristics determine the experience of the resultant places * Comprehensively covers the ideas, principles, and the perception of design * Teaches designers to make informed decisions about applying or discarding principles when creating spaces. Design and Order is a unique book that will appeal to students and professionals in architecture, urban design and planning, as well as designers and developers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119539537
• Artikelnr.: 59800953

Autorenporträt

NIGEL C. LEWIS is a designer initially trained at Arup, and he has been responsible for and involved in the planning, design, development and project management of major buildings and infrastructure projects worldwide. He holds a Master of City Planning (MCP) from the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Arts (MA Oxon) in Engineering Science & Economics and is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Inhaltsangabe

Outline xix

Preface xxiii

Section I The Environment 1

Part I The Environment - Natural, Ecological and Historical (Topography) 3

1 Natural Sites and Places 5

1.1 Nature and Landscape 5

1.2 Natural Places and Characteristics 5

1.3 Creation of Man-Made Places 6

1.4 Existential Space and Place 7

1.5 Natural Landscape and Sensing 9

Further Reading 10

2 Ecological and Climatic Context and Basic Protection Needs 11

2.1 Primitive Needs 11

2.2 Climatic Zones and Natural Materials for Shelter 11

2.3 Shelter Types, Uses and Purposes 13

2.4 Socio-Cultural Factors and Human Needs 14

2.5 Theory of Human Needs 15

Exhibit 2.1 Basic Human Needs 18

Further Reading 19

3 Historical and Regional Development 21

3.1 Historic Eras and Development 21

3.2 Regional Variations, Early Cultures and Settlements 22

3.3 Topography, Climate and Materials - Form Determinants 23

Exhibit 3.1 Individual Dwelling Types 24

Further Reading 27

Section II Human Behaviour and Design 29

Part II Human Behaviour (Neuro-Physiology) 31

4 The Brain, the Mind and Sensing 33

4.1 The Brain and Neurological Systems - Seeing, Touching and Hearing 33

4.2 Seeing - Visual Processing and Memory 33

4.3 Touching and Hearing 35

4.4 The Mind - Mental Learning and Thinking - Cognition 36

4.5 The Mind - Visceral Feelings - Emotion and Motivation 38

4.6 Consciousness and Self 39

4.7 Human Body and the Sensing of Form 40

4.8 Meaning, Intentionality and Imagination 41

4.9 Metaphor and Consciousness 42

Exhibit 4.1 The Human Brain - Neurological Sensing 45

Further Reading 52

5 The Eyes and the Visual System 55

5.1 Visual Perception 55

5.2 Visual World and Visual Field 57

5.3 Visual Perception and Affordances 61

5.4 Perceptual Experience - Visual System 62

5.5 Visual System and Optic Arrays 63

5.6 Recognition, Eye Movements and Analogue Theory 65

Exhibit 5.1 The Human Eye 66

Exhibit 5.2 Affordances 72

Exhibit 5.3 Perspective - Sensory Shifts 73

Further Reading 74

6 The Senses 75

6.1 The System of Senses 75

6.2 The Senses 76

6.3 Further Senses 78

6.4 The Senses and Multi-Sensory Experience 81

6.5 Multi-Sensory Emotions, Feelings and Aspirations 83

6.6 Pleasure 85

Exhibit 6.1 The Human Ear 86

Exhibit 6.2 The Human Senses 88

Further Reading 89

Part III Perceptual Experience of Form (Psychology and Phenomenology) 91

7 Aesthetic Theories and Perception of Built Form 93

7.1 Perception 93

7.2 Theories of Perception 93

7.3 Schematisation and Phenomena 94

7.4 Equilibrium, Wholes and Re-centring 96

7.5 Parts and the 'Whole' 96

7.6 Perceptual Properties 98

7.7 Perception of Form 98

7.8 Psychology of Form 99

7.9 Dynamics of Space 100

7.10 Perception and Cognition 102

7.11 Meaning and Symbols 104

7.12 Synopsis - Perceptual Experience 106

Exhibit 7.1 Principles of Configuration 108

Exhibit 7.2 Perspective 111

Further Reading 113

Part IV Grammar and Syntax of Form, and Composition 115

8 Architectural Ordering, Composition, Form and Beauty 117

8.1 Order 117

8.2 Grammar of Design and Syntax 1