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Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream architectureâs understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideaâs centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
Rigorous but not dense, practical but not trivialising, the book unfolds on three fronts. First, it clearly frames the pertinent aspects of topologyâthe philosophy of placeâimportantly differentiating two concepts that architecture regularly conflates: place and space. Second, it rejects the ubiquitous notion that architecture âœmakes placeâ and, instead, reasons that place is what makes architecture and the built environment possible; that place âœcallsâ for and to architecture; and that architecture is thus invited to âœlistenâ and respond. Finally, it turns to the matter of designing responses that result not just in more places of architecture (demanding little of design), nor merely in architecture w
