Intertwining: Baukultur
Alessandro Gattara, Sarah Robinson, Davide Ruzzon (Editors)
Mimesis International, September 2019

Paperback | 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 216 pages | # illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-8869772702 | $26.99

Publisher's Description:
We want to move beyond thinking of architecture as an object. Architecture is not separate from us?it is not something to be judged merely by its formal properties, its satisfaction of programmatic concerns or its performance in terms of technical parameters. We are not dismissing the importance of these factors but wish to enrich them, to understand and articulate how architecture can capture and express unseen layers of meaning and purpose.

We want to think of architecture as a verb, a mover, a shaper, an active agent in human flourishing. In order to appreciate the potential power of architecture we want to explore the experience of architecture, and the intimately related experience of making architecture. Turning our attention to experience requires that we listen to and consider knowledge from a full array of disciplines. Experience is multi-dimensional, multi-directional, irreducible. Experience always supersedes, flows over any boundary that attempts to circumscribe it.dDAB Commentary: The World Economic Forum is taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland. Each year the famous invitation-only event for CEOs and politicians happens around a theme and then results in a so-called "Davos Declaration.&...