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Ritual house, ritual city : drawing on nature's rhythms for architecture and urban design / Ralph Knowles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.Edition: First editionDescription: 202 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1597260509 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1597260517 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA2542.4 .K66 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Sheltering -- 2. Migration -- 3. Transformation -- 4. Metabolism -- 5. Sheltering the soul -- 6. Settings and rituals -- 7. Boundaries and choices -- 8. The solar envelope -- 9. The interstitium -- 10. The new architecture of the sun.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sheltering -- Migrations -- Transformations -- Metabolism -- Sheltering the soul -- Settings and rituals -- Boundaries -- The solar envelope -- The interstitium -- The new architecture of the sun -- Notes.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 720.47 KNO 1 Available T00440145
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USC's School of Architecture, has carefully crafted a book for architects, designers, planners--anyone who yearns to reconnect to the natural world through the built environment. He shows us how to re-examine a shadow, a wall, a window, a landscape, as they respond to the natural cycles of heat, light, wind, and rain. Analyzing methods of sheltering that range from a Berber tent to a Spanish courtyard to the cityscape of contemporary Los Angeles, Ritual House shows us the future: by coining the concept of solar access zoning, he introduces a radical yet increasingly viable solution for tomorrow's mega-cities.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sheltering -- 2. Migration -- 3. Transformation -- 4. Metabolism -- 5. Sheltering the soul -- 6. Settings and rituals -- 7. Boundaries and choices -- 8. The solar envelope -- 9. The interstitium -- 10. The new architecture of the sun.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sheltering -- Migrations -- Transformations -- Metabolism -- Sheltering the soul -- Settings and rituals -- Boundaries -- The solar envelope -- The interstitium -- The new architecture of the sun -- Notes.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. xi)
  • Preface (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xix)
  • 1 Sheltering (p. 2)
  • 2 Migration (p. 22)
  • 3 Transformation (p. 42)
  • 4 Metabolism (p. 60)
  • 5 Sheltering the Soul (p. 74)
  • 6 Settings and Rituals (p. 88)
  • 7 Boundaries and Choices (p. 110)
  • 8 The Solar Envelope (p. 126)
  • 9 The Interstitium (p. 152)
  • 10 The New Architecture of the Sun (p. 174)
  • Notes (p. 179)
  • Bibliography (p. 185)
  • Index (p. 193)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Knowles is one of the most distinguished professors of architecture in this country. He is now retired, emeritus status, from the University of Southern California. He has been an unregenerate modernist and ecologist for his entire career, and this book distills a lifetime of teaching in the field. The book falls into a category of publication called design manuals or guides to design, teaching readers how to design housing and using little line drawings, short pithy paragraphs, simple mass diagrams, and tiny black-and-white photographs. The book gives the flavor of what it must have been like to learn from Knowles in one of his design studios. As such, this book will appeal to beginning design students of all stripes, from high school to graduate school. The "ritual" of the title refers to the agendas of daily life that begin with the passages of the sun and the moon through the sky and end with the distillation of fresh-ground coffee for morning breakfast. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; two-year technical program students. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center

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