Repository | Book | Chapter
Architecture as identity, I
the essence of architecture
pp. 1-11
Abstract
The basic act of architecture is therefore to understand the “vocation” of the place. In this way we protect the earth and become ourselves part of comprehensive totality. What is here advocated is not some kind of environmental determinism. We only recognize that man is an integral part of the environment, and that it can only lead to human alienation and environmental disruption if he forgets that, to belong to a place means to have an existential foothold in a concrete everyday sense.” (Norberg-Schulz 1980)
Publication details
Published in:
Herzfeld Michael, Lenhart Margot D (1982) Semiotics 1980. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 1-11
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9137-1_1
Full citation:
Abel Chris (1982) Architecture as identity, I: the essence of architecture, In: Semiotics 1980, Dordrecht, Springer, 1–11.