01542nam a2200181 4500 20260610162749.0 260610b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-3.34608923 Eng NA31 .J3613 2014 720.3 Alban Janson, Florian Tigges Fundamental concepts of architecture : the vocabulary of spatial situations 379 p. 24 cm. Architecture is an experience – with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture. This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like “roof,” “base,” “wall,” and “axis” or “proportion”. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum. From “context,” through “guidance,” “readability,” “patina,” “spatial structure,” “symmetry” and “tectonics,” to “width” (and “narrowness”) or “window,” the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail. ddc 1 AT 0 0 ddc 0 0 REF DSCA DSCA DISPLAY 2026-06-01 0 720 2477 2026-06-10 16:30:19 2026-06-10 AT 6907 6907