The experience of architecture / Henry Plummer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: Places of possibility -- Chapter 1: Floors of agility -- Chapter 2: Mechanisms of transformation -- Chapter 3: Spaces of versatility -- Chapter 4: Depths of discovery -- Chapter 5: Fields of action.

This book aims to understand how these everyday acts are influenced by architectural form, a concept that is vital for all architects to grasp. It considers how specifically built elements and volumes, taken from a wide array of buildings and settings around the world, can affect our powers of decision. From hand-carved stairs in Greek villages to free-floating catwalks, from the elegant processional steps of Renaissance Italy to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterly manipulation of form, all provide very different experiences of stepping from one level to the next, and all affect our experience of that space.