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9780415725347.Pdf Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 ARCHITECTURE AND MOVEMENT The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles this complex subject for the first time, providing the wide range of perspectives needed to tackle this multidisciplinary topic. Organised in four parts, it: • documents the architect’s, planner’s or designer’s approach, looking at how they have sought to deploy buildings as a promenade and how they have thought or written about it; • concentrates on the individual’s experience, and particularly on the primacy of walking, which engages other senses besides the visual; • engages with society and social rituals, and how mutually we define the spaces through which we move, both by laying out routes and boundaries and by celebrating thresholds; • analyses how we deal with promenades that are not experienced directly but via other media, such as computer models, drawings, film and television. The wide selection of contributors includes academics and practitioners, and they discuss cases from across the US, UK, Europe and Asia. By mingling such disparate voices in a carefully curated selection of chapters, the book enlarges the understanding of architects, architectural students, designers and planners, alerting them to the many and complex issues involved in the experience of movement. Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 Peter Blundell Jones is a British architect, historian, academic and critic. Educated at the Architectural Association School, London, he taught at the University of Cambridge and London South Bank University before becoming Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He is a prolific author on architectural history and theory and he has written monographs on the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund, Hans Scharoun, Hugo Häring, Günter Behnisch, Peter Hübner and the Graz School. He contributed to and co-edited Routledge’s Architecture and Participation. Mark Meagher’s research and teaching focus on applications of digital software and devices in design education, data visualisation and fabrication. He is currently a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. DE LA WARR STAIR 1934–5 Mendelsohn was one of Germany’s most successful Modernist architects before the rise of Hitler, with several large urban buildings to his credit, and the De la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill is his only public building in Britain, executed with the help of Serge Chermayeff. He sought to make the external massing of his buildings dynamic to sympathise with the flow of traffic along the street, and he also concerned himself with the experience of people moving through, which reached a peak of expression in his staircases. That at Bexhill is among the best. Long, horizontal terraces open to the sea, but you enter from the other side via a cross-hall. Immediately, the great semicircular stair is visible at the other end, with the sea view beyond, a vertical foil to the general horizontal emphasis. The stair serves as hinge in the plan, and its tower is the climax of the whole seafront. The flights cantilever in concrete from level to level, leaving a graceful sweep beneath which blends into the next floor. The whole stands within a drum of glass treated as an open cage, beyond which, after a narrow gap, terraces project as half-rings supported on four thin columns. Their lipped edges add delicacy, and their balustrades add a further layer. Hanging in the stair’s hollow centre is an elaborate, multi-stage light fitting, and below it a circular celebratory plaque on the floor. The rising balustrades are topped by a round rail that invites the grasp. People choose the stair over the added lift, appreciating its visual drama. The experience is enhanced in reality by one’s movement and binocular vision, which induce interplay in the layers. This stair received Mendelsohn’s most concentrated design effort, and the building is unthinkable without it. Peter Blundell Jones Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 Cover image De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on Sea, by Erich Mendlesohn and Serge Chermayeff, 1934–5, the main stair Source: Photography by Peter Blundell Jones ARCHITECTURE AND MOVEMENT The dynamic experience of buildings and landscapes Edited by Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher The right of the editors to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Architecture and movement: the dynamic experience of buildings and landscapes/edited by Peter Blundell Jones, Mark Meagher. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Space (Architecture) – Psychological aspects. 2. Landscapes—Psychological aspects. 3. Walking – Psychological aspects. I. Blundell Jones, Peter, editor of compilation. II. Meagher, Mark, editor of compilation. NA2765.A73 2014 720 – dc23 2014015063 ISBN: 978-0-415-72534-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-72535-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-76477-1 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo and Stone Sans by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 CONTENTS Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Peter Blundell Jones PART 1 Moving through buildings and landscapes: the designer’s perspective 9 1.0 Introduction to Part 1 11 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher 1.1 The classical authors 19 Peter Blundell Jones 1.2 Viollet-le-duc on the medieval cloister 23 Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones 1.3 Charles Garnier: Le théâtre, Chapter 4, Staircases 25 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones 1.4 Hermann Muthesius: Wie baue ich mein Haus 35 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones 1.5 Architectural promenades through the Villa Savoye 44 Flora Samuel vi Contents 1.6 Gunnar Asplund: ‘pictures with marginal notes from the Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition’, 1923 50 Translated by Eva Berndtsson and Peter Blundell Jones 1.7 Frank Lloyd Wright’s use of movement 55 John Sergeant 1.8 Hans Scharoun and movement: the Kassel Project 1952 65 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones 1.9 Move to the light 72 David Lea 1.10 Odysseus and Kalypso – at home 81 Peter Wilson PART 2 Movement as experienced by the individual 91 2.0 Introduction to Part 2 93 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher 2.1 The primacy of bodily experience 96 Peter Blundell Jones 2.2 From health to pleasure: the landscape of walking 102 Jan Woudstra 2.3 Architecture of walking 112 Doina Petrescu 2.4 Soundscape and movement 121 Jian Kang Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 2.5 From foot to vehicle 128 Peter Blundell Jones 2.6 Moving round the ring road 135 Stephen Walker 2.7 The geometry of moving bodies 142 Alan Lewis 2.8 Pedestrians and traffic 149 Ben Hamilton-Baillie Contents vii PART 3 Movement as social and shared 157 3.0 Introduction to Part 3 159 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher 3.1 Space as a product of bodily movement: centre, path and threshold 164 Peter Blundell Jones 3.2 Rievaulx and the Order of St Benedict 172 Translated by Abbot Parry 3.3 Lucien Kroll: the door 177 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones 3.4 The Japanese tea ceremony 178 Lucy Block 3.5 The East Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty 185 Peter Blundell Jones, Jianghua Wang and Bing Jiang 3.6 The automated gardens of Lunéville: from the self-moving landscape to the circuit walk 196 Renata Tyszczuk 3.7 Lauriston School 204 Ann Griffin PART 4 The representation of movement 213 4.0 Introduction to Part 4 215 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 4.1 House construction among the Dong 220 Derong Kong 4.2 Movement and the use of the sequential section by Enric Miralles and Mathur and da Cunha 230 Kamni Gill 4.3 From models to movement? Reflections on some recent projects by Herzog & de Meuron 239 Cornelia Tapparelli viii Contents 4.4 Filmic Space: an encounter with Patrick Keiller 244 Peter Blundell Jones 4.5 Diasporic experience and the need for topological methods 251 Nishat Awan 4.6 Open design: thoughts on software and the representation of movement 258 Mark Meagher 4.7 The matter of movement 266 Phil Ayres Conclusion 277 Peter Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher Bibliography 287 Index 295 Downloaded by [New York University] at 13:58 16 August 2016 CONTRIBUTORS Nishat Awan is co-author of the 2011 book Spatial Agency: Other ways of doing architecture.
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