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Concrete the vision of a new architecture / by Collins, Peter, 1920-1981

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Architecture is a verb / by Robinson, Sarah (Architect)

Table of Contents: “…-- Extended Organisms -- The Primacy of Movement -- Primordial Techne -- Inhabiting-The Matrix of Habitual Action -- 4 Questioning Perception -- Umwelt and Affordances -- Niche Construction -- Neural Plasticity and Epigenetic Change -- Knowledge Is External -- Reprogramming Sensory Life -- Architectural Affordances -- 5 Constructing Consciousness -- Consciousness Is Rhythmic -- The Natural History of Consciousness -- Art Structures Consciousness -- The Future Enters Through the Work of Art -- Laminated Consciousness -- 6 Taxonomy of Interactions -- Structures of Consciousness -- Archaic Consciousness -- Magic Consciousness -- Mythical Consciousness -- Mental-Rational Consciousness -- Integral Consciousness -- 7 The Primacy of Breathing -- Affirming the Breath -- Empathy and Entrainment -- The Epistemology of the Skin -- Cultures of Breathing -- A Brief Study of Desert Thermal-Cultural Devices -- Resisting -- Touching -- Haptic Perception -- 8 Homo Faber -- Resonating -- Music: A Technology of Bonding -- Buildings as Musical Instruments -- Sound as a Building Material -- Dancing -- Kinesthetic Awareness -- Mechanisms of Mutuality -- Making -- 9 Collective Dreaming -- Imagining -- Complementarity -- Suspension -- Metaphor: Patterning Fields -- Remembering -- Storytelling -- Narrative and Self -- Empathy and Story -- 10 This Lesser, Rebellious Field -- Abstracting -- From Panoptics to Peripheral Vision -- Learning From the Japanese Garden -- Framing -- Thinking -- Improvisation -- Nature of the Medium -- The Bottom-Up/Top-Down Dialectic -- 11 The Soil of the Sensible -- Integration -- Inhabiting -- Eating -- Sleeping -- Being Bored -- Walking -- An Architecture of Moments -- Playing -- Counterforms -- Visceral Urbanism -- Healing -- 12 Fields of Care: Concluding Thoughts -- Taxonomy of Interactions Appendix -- Index.…”
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