Architecture and movement : the dynamic experience of buildings and landscapes

CONTENTS Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Peter BlundellJones 9 PART 1 11 Moving through buildings and landscapes: the designer's 19 perspective 23 25 1.0 Introduction to Part 1 35 Peter BlundellJones and Mark Meagher 44 1.1 The classical authors Peter BlundellJones 1.2 Viollet-le-duc on the medieval cloister Translated by Peter BlundellJones 1.3 Charles Garnier: Le theatre, Chapter 4, Staircases Translated by Peter BlundellJones 1.4 Hermann Muthesius: Wie baue ich mein Haus Translated by Peter BlundellJones 1.5 Architectural promenades through the Villa Savoye Flora Samuel

vi Contents so 1.6 Gunnar Asplund: 'pictures with marginal notes from the 55 Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition', 1923 65 Translated by Eva Bemdtsson and Peter BlundellJones 72 81 1.7 Frank Lloyd Wright's use of movement John Sergeant 91 93 1.8 Hans Scharoun and movement: the Kassel Project 1952 96 Translated by Peter BlundellJones 102 112 1.9 Move to the light 121 David Lea 128 135 1.10 Odysseus and Kalypso - at home 142 Peter Wilson 149 PART 2 Movement as experienced by the individual 2.0 Introduction to Part 2 Peter BlundellJones and Mark Meagher 2.1 The primacy of bodily experience Peter BlundellJones 2.2 From health to pleasure: the landscape of walking Jan Woudstra 2.3 Architecture of walking Doina Petrescu 2.4 Soundscape and movement Jian Kang 2.5 From foot to vehicle Peter BlundellJones 2.6 Moving round the ring road Stephen Walker 2.7 The geometry of moving bodies Alan Lewis 2.8 Pedestrians and traffic Ben Hamilton- Baillie

PART 3 Contents vii Movement as social and shared 157 159 3.0 Introduction to Part 3 Peter BlundellJones and Mark Meagher 3.1 Space as a product of bodily movement: centre, path and threshold 164 Peter BlundellJones 3.2 Rievaulx and the Order of St Benedict 172 Translated by Abbot Parry 3.3 Lucien Kroll: the door 177 Translated by Peter BlundellJones 3.4 The Japanese tea ceremony 178 Lucy Block 3.5 The East Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty 185 Peter BlundellJones, Jianghua Wang and BingJiang 3.6 The automated gardens of Luneville: from the self-moving 196 landscape to the circuit walk Renata Tyszczuk 3. 7 Lauriston School 204 Ann Griffin PART 4 213 The representation of movement 215 220 4.0 Introduction to Part 4 Peter BlundellJones and Mark Meagher 230 4.1 House construction among the Dong 239 Derong Kong 4.2 Movement and the use of the sequential section by Enric Miralles and Mathur and da Cunha Kamni Gill 4.3 From models to movement? Reflections on some recent projects by Herzog & de Meuron Cornelia Tapparelli

viii Contents 244 251 4.4 Filmic Space: an encounter with Patrick Keiller Peter BlundellJones 258 266 4.5 Diasporic experience and the need for topological methods Nishat Awan 277 4.6 Open design: thoughts on software and the representation of 287 moven1ent 295 Mark Meagher 4.7 The matter of movement Phil Ayres Conclusion Peter BlundellJones and Mark Meagher Bibliography Index