| Description |
1 online resource (141 p.) |
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Architectural design ; v. 93, no. 4 0003-8504 |
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Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 93, no. 4.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Guest-Editors -- Introduction: A Eulogy to Penumbra Agostino De Rosa, Alessio Bortot and Francesco Bergamo -- Geometric Origins -- Onthology -- Dwellers on the Threshold -- Notes -- At the Edges of Transparent Language -- The Thresholds of Chaos and Cosmos -- Notes -- Eden to Eden: At the Dawn of the Name -- The Indominable -- Penumbra 1 -- arché -- Note -- 'In the Womb Yet Out-of-Doors': Penumbra and the Spaces In-Between -- Light Subdued, Not Exhausted -- Penumbras of the Forest Edge -- Envelopment and Exposure -- Notes |
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The Warmth of Death: Alexander Brodsky and the Necropolis in the Womb of the Metropolis -- Bioluminescence -- Illuminated by the Penumbra -- Notes -- A Path to the Light: Variations and Multiple Dimensions -- An Allegory of Passing Time -- A Distortion of Reality -- Penumbra as a Filter -- The Gardens of Paradise -- Charged Space: The Anatomy of the In-between -- Climatic Beasts -- The Anatomy of the 'Beast' -- Notes -- Efficiency Versus Game: Twilight Spaces for Homo Ludens -- Finding the Twilight Point -- Twilight Spaces as Activity Enhancers Through Play -- Seeking the Almost: Designing Shade |
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Deep Meaning -- Matter, Shadows and Lights -- Designing a Crisis -- Notes -- Rhythmic Alternation: Metaphors of Light, Dark and Shadow -- The Architecture of Light and Dark -- The World of all the Senses -- Chiaroscuro, Penumbra and the Umbraculum -- Notes -- The Intimacy of Neglect: Thresholds, Interconnectedness and Unexpected Glimpses -- The Vertical Lane House -- Mediated Third Space -- Liminality as Spatial Protagonist -- Notes -- As If Without Time: The Nuclear Twilight Zone -- What We Know -- What We See -- The White Light -- Light and Dark -- Notes |
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Things In Themselves: The X-Ray and Its Embodied Space -- And are we here -- A Question of Content -- Penumbral Form -- The X-ray Image, Form and Resistance -- Embodiments -- Notes -- Projecting the Indeterminate and Enigmatic: The Painting of Marco Tirelli -- A Special Garden -- From the Architectural Dimension to the Metaphysical -- The Mystery of the Half-Closed Shutter -- Notes -- Subliminal Blueprints for Other Dimensions: The Time-warped Sanatorium of the Quay Brothers -- Limbo of Uncertainty -- Sepulchre of a Dead Retina -- Subliminal Blueprints -- Notes |
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From Another Perspective: The Shadowy World of Domesticity -- Shadowlands -- The Light and the Dark -- The Spirit -- Notes -- Contributors -- What is Architectural Design? -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- FORTHCOMING AD TITLES -- EULA |
| Summary |
Penumbra, from the Latin paene (almost) and umbra (shadow), can be defined as an intermediate zone of transition between light and shadow. Penumbra is therefore that space, both physical and imaginary, where everything is possible: it is the place of the uncanny, where presence and/or absence can produce wonder or horror.This AD positions the presence of this archetype in the contemporary world of architecture, investigating the ways it permeates different expressive forms - from critical theory to architectural drawing, from design and planning to photography. The contributors illustrate and discuss how penumbra has shaped their creativity and modified their approach to the design process. As a physical phenomenon, penumbra has supra-historical and global connotations; nonetheless, different cultures elaborate its symbolism in different ways. Its wide semantic spectrum powerfully inspires creative forms that hover between fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, past and future. The critical perspectives in this issue offer a wide analysis of penumbra's expressive potential and the key to an in-depth understanding of this elusive layer of reality |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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July/August 2023 |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
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Shades and shadows in architecture.
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Light in architecture.
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Architecture, Modern
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Light in architecture
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Shades and shadows in architecture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bortot, Alessio
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Bergamo, Francesco
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| ISBN |
9781119983989 |
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1119983983 |
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