JOVIS Catalog 2019

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#thresholds #studiopaulinemarchetti
A History of Thresholds
Life, Death & Rebirth
Sensual City Studio
Thresholds are an (often overlooked) anthropological constant found in
every era and every culture. From the spatial understanding of Greek antiquity
to the establishment of the private sphere in the eighteenth century
and the transparency of modern architecture, the threshold has always
been a central architectural element. Like a visual symbol of a boundary or
a transition, thresholds divide spaces–but are also a connecting element,
opening up ways through and across, which have a subtle influence on
one’s own perception of space.
It is only in recent decades that thresholds have lost significance as part
of our everyday experience with architecture. What remains is a growing
emptiness between people and the spaces in which they live.
Sensual City Studio not only provides an inspiring overview of this important
architectural stylistic feature from all eras and cultures, but also shows,
in particular, that thresholds can and must be rethought and rebuilt. In this
respect, this book is a plea for the renaissance of the threshold and therefore
also a manifesto for a human architecture.
Swiss binding with flaps
15 x 21 cm
184 pages, 129 col.
English
EUR (D) 32.00
ISBN 978-3-86859-520-8
Available
9 783868 595208
When you're young, you always feel that
life hasn't yet begun—that life is always
scheduled to begin next week, next
month, and next year, after the holidays—
whenever. But then suddenly you're
old and the scheduled life didn't arrive.
[fig. 016]
Douglas Coupland
Life After God
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