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Basics of Perception in Architecture

Jörg Kurt Grütter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Published:16th Oct '21

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This book makes the extremely complex process of architectural perception far more transparent and thus contributes to a better understanding of our built environment. 

Why is there so much debate about the appearance of our built environment, about the aesthetics of architecture today? Why do opinions about the aesthetic quality of buildings often diverge extremely even among experts? Why can’t we agree on architecture, on what is beautiful and what is not?

Most areas of construction, such as statics and building physics, are measurable and can therefore be substantiated with objective arguments. Yet this does not apply to the unquantifiable aesthetics of architecture. Accordingly, judgments on aesthetics are always subject-specific, and strongly dependent on the viewer.

Nevertheless, the aesthetics of architecture is not just a matter of taste. Many relationships between buildings as objects and viewers as subjects can be determined objectively with the help of perceptual psychology and information theory, as this book demonstrates.

ISBN: 9783658311582

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366 pages

1st ed. 2020