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Cultural Travels with an Architectural Eye /cPeter Sheppard

出版	University of Auckland, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lYVgwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Architecture is far from mere buildings. Nor is it about individual projects, let-alone fashion images. It involves landform, context, nature, community and culture, heritage, identity, people values, aesthetic expression, and planning. It gives us qualities from the past and for the future; and a sense of Place and belonging. It includes a caring fit to setting and environment; with sustainability. How does our development enhance our lives, our people valuesIt should be sensitive, human, and inclusive. Centred on Life. Rather than superficial appearances we look for significance, connections, and humanity. At NorthArt I offer some samples of my photos, sketches, and texts: linking People, Architecture, and Place. From New Zealand practice to various remote parts of the world both well-known and mysteriously remote. We see examples including urban context and civics. The soul of a town is mirrored not just in the character of the individual buildings, but more important is the relationship of these structures to each other, the people-spaces created between them, and to human activity and values. Some of the examples are state-of-the-art, some telling vernacular. We can also think about the fundamental lessons of historic and traditional architecture, heritage where lasting and appropriate. These cards are not pretty-picture wall photography. They're intended as meaningful visual communication. Telling, not selling. Sharing ideas; reminding of relationships between people and their setting. Architecture for Life. Community, landform, place, and nature; expressing our awareness, culture, and identity. Far from the dramatisation of technical photographic effects - beguiling as that may be to advertising. They're offered as non-commercial contribution. For example, we might visit a vernacular Italian village - one of hundreds. In rugged mountain-scape a skyline image of stone nesting appears. Unified, it grows at one with its hilltop yet is firmly shaped as living community. On our approach, its human expression within the landscape intrigues us. We see ancient hand-placed stonework enlivened by patches of soft colour or whitewash - a grading from hot sunlight to cool shadows. Who built this village with its emphatic response to Place, and how did its architecture enhance their livesThen at the end of the follow-through sequence are semi-nomadic tribes I recently visited in the remote south of Ethiopia. Their "architecture" is only temporary mud huts, but from historic times they've had traditions of skilled body-decoration and face-painting for visual pleasure and tribal identity"--Provided by the author.