Reading Architecture and Culture : Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents (Paperback)

Introduction: A Case for Close Reading Adam Sharr  Opening  1. Breathing Walls David Leatherbarrow  Part 1: Extraodrinary Buildings, Divergent Readings  Introduction Adam Sharr  2. An Augury of Collapse: Herzog and De Meuron’s Caixa Forum, Madrid Adam Sharr  3. Fostering Relations in Kazakhstan Edward Wainwright  4. Reading the Site at Sverre Fehn's Hamar Museum Suzanne Ewing 5. A Hellish Cloud and a Very Clear Air: Industry, Nature and Weather in Early Eighteenth-Century England Jonathan Hill  Part 2: Familiar Buildings, Unfamiliar Readings Introduction Adam Sharr  6. Extension Stories Flora Samuel  7. Lounge Space: The Home, the City and the Service Area Samuel Austin  8. The Architecture of Urban Life: 67 rue des Meuniers Diana Periton  9. The Settings and the Social Condenser: Transitional Objects in Architecture and Psychoanalysis Jane Rendell  Part 3: Redolent Details, Insightful Dcouments  Introduction Adam Sharr  10. Four Lines Michael Cadwell  11. 'God is in the Details'/'The Detail is Moot': A Meeting Between Koolhaas and Mies Mhairi McVicar  12. Specifying Transparency: From ‘Best Seconds’ to ‘New Glass Performances’ Katie Lloyd Thomas  13. Making Plans: Alberti's Ichnography as Cultural Artefact Paul Emmons and Jonathan Foote  14. How the Mind Meets Architecture: What Photography Reveals Hugh Campbell  Opening 2  15. An Architectural Good-life can be Built, Explained and Taught only Through Storytelling Marco Frascari