Description
Book SynopsisTo architects the enduring attraction of narrative is that it offers a way of engaging with the way a city feels and works. Rather than reducing architecture to mere style or an overt emphasis on technology, it foregrounds the experiential dimension of architecture. In practice it is just as easy to be minimalist as maximalist in its execution.
Trade Review'Nigel Coates walk through narrative architecture is fun and fascinating. (RIBA Journal, March 2012) The book does solidly live up to its promise, providing a staggering number of references that for the first time build up a broad picture of the scope and range of narrative architecture in all its guises (Blueprint, April 2012) Narrative Architecture is certainly a good read. (Architectural Review, April 2012)
Table of ContentsPreface 008
Chapter 1 The Long Perspective 013
Chapter 2 Radical Terrain 033
Chapter 3 NATO 055
Chapter 4 Story Buildings 080
Chapter 5 Practice in Person 112
Chapter 6 Pure ‘Narrativity’ 132
Epilogue 158
Bibliography 162
Index 164
