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Routledge
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Routledge
The shaping of our buildings is a curios activity. On the one hand, builders through history have been driven to produce novelty and invention in their designs. On the other, they have suppressed this drive, constraining their inventiveness not for reasons of utility or efficiency, but to satisfy arbitrary norms of style. In this book Sonit Bafna develops an explanation for these countervailing... Read more
1. The Paradoxical Character of Architecture 2. The Case for a Functional Theory: Explaining Typological Form through Generic Social Function 3: The Limits of Social Function: Problems in the Explanation of Intentional Form Making 4. The Structure of Viewer’s Attention: The Role of Anticipated Attentionality in Shaping Design 5. Imagination as a Generic Cognitive Function 6. The Consequences of the Generic Imaginative Function: The Emergence of Inferable Intentional Structure in Design 7. Broader Implications of the Idea of Imaginative Function: Addressing Long-Standing Issues in Reflective Practice, and Identifying a Program for Research in Architecture. Annotated Bibliography. Image Credits. Index
Biography
Sonit Bafna is an associate professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
