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Camouflage by Neil Leach (English) Paperback Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9780262622004
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- ISBN
- 9780262622004
- Book Title
- Camouflage
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Design, Architecture
- Topic
- Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General, Criticism
- Item Width
- 7.1 in
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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An exploration of the urge in human beings to feel at home in the world, and the role that architecture plays in this process. We human beings are governed by the urge to conform and blend in with our surroundings. We follow fashion. We become part of cultures of conformity--religious communities, military groups, sports teams; we take on corporate identities. Likewise, we seem to have the capacity to grow into our built environment, to familiarize ourselves with it, and eventually to find ourselves at home there. We have a chameleonlike urge to adapt, and, given the increasing mobility of contemporary life, we are constantly having to do so.The desire for camouflage is a desire to feel connected--to find our place in the world and to feel at home. In Camouflage Neil Leach analyzes this desire and its consequences for architectural concerns. Design, Leach argues, can aid the process of assimilation we go through when we adapt to our surroundings. Design can provide a form of connectivity--a mediation between us and our environment--and it can contribute to a sense of belonging. Architecture, and indeed all forms of design and creativity--fashion, art, cinema, and others--can be an effective realm for forging a sense of belonging and establishing an identity. Camouflage offers a range of overlapping and intersecting theoretical perspectives--from an overview of psychoanalytic insights to an account of the magical properties of architectural models--that together suggest a way to rethink our relationship to the world and the role that design plays in that relationship.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262622009
ISBN-13
9780262622004
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50477574
Product Key Features
Book Title
Camouflage
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General, Criticism
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Architecture
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
7.1 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Na2500.L432 2006
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College Graduate Student
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This exquisitely designed publication is itself an aesthetic domain, understated and carefully considered. Its cover is subtly seductive. All illustrations are of a young women adapting, assimilating, and blending into various environments. They are hauntingly beautiful and are important to the craft and message of the book, yet they are also mysterious. All we are told is that they are the work of 'the late Francesca Woodman.' One suspects that there is further meaning that is hidden--perhaps through camouflage., "This exquisitely designed publication is itself an aesthetic domain, understated and carefully considered. Its cover is subtly seductive. All illustrations are of a young women adapting, assimilating, and blending into various environments. They are hauntingly beautiful and are important to the craft and message of the book, yet they are also mysterious. All we are told is that they are the work of 'the late Francesca Woodman.' One suspects that there is further meaning that is hidden -- perhaps through camouflage." Architectural Record, "This exquisitely designed publication is itself an aesthetic domain, understated and carefully considered. Its cover is subtly seductive. All illustrations are of a young women adapting, assimilating, and blending into various environments. They are hauntingly beautiful and are important to the craft and message of the book, yet they are also mysterious. All we are told is that they are the work of 'the late Francesca Woodman.' One suspects that there is further meaning that is hidden-perhaps through camouflage." - Architectural Record, This exquisitely designed publication is itself an aesthetic domain, understated and carefully considered. Its cover is subtly seductive. All illustrations are of a young women adapting, assimilating, and blending into various environments. They are hauntingly beautiful and are important to the craft and message of the book, yet they are also mysterious. All we are told is that they are the work of 'the late Francesca Woodman.' One suspects that there is further meaning that is hidden -- perhaps through camouflage., "This exquisitely designed publication is itself an aesthetic domain, understated andcarefully considered. Its cover is subtly seductive. All illustrations are of a young womenadapting, assimilating, and blending into various environments. They are hauntingly beautiful andare important to the craft and message of the book, yet they are also mysterious. All we are told isthat they are the work of 'the late Francesca Woodman.' One suspects that there is further meaningthat is hidden -- perhaps through camouflage." Architectural Record
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-058061
Dewey Decimal
720.1
Dewey Edition
22
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