ABSTRACT
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|90 pages
Mind
chapter 2|11 pages
The sacred environment
An investigation of the sacred and its implications for place-making
part |74 pages
Considerate intervention
chapter 10|11 pages
Place-making: the notion of centre
A typological investigation of means and meanings
chapter 11|12 pages
Hybrid identities
‘Public' and ‘private’ life in the courtyard houses of Barabazaar, Kolkata, India
part 2|60 pages
Matter
part |48 pages
Considerate intervention
chapter 23|14 pages
Horizon in the Hamar Museum
An instrument of architecture and a way of looking at site
