Media·Architecture: Inspiration from Communication Studies for Architectural Design

Author: Zhou Zhengnan
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book is a work of interdisciplinary research between communication studies and architecture. Through the application of communication theories and methods in the field of architecture, it offers a new perspective for understanding architecture and brings new insights to architectural design. The content of the book is divided into three parts. The first part analyzes the architectural design process from the perspective of communication studies. By studying the communication elements and models in architectural design, it explains that the architectural design process, in an ideal state, is actually a complete communication process. The second part focuses on examining the interaction and influence between architecture as a medium and people by researching the psychological characteristics of architectural audiences (needs, attention, cognition, attitudes). It reveals some factors that go beyond the traditional control range of architectural design but still affect its social impact. The third part uses communication studies and information theory methods to analyze the information content inherent in architecture, proposes some information principles for architectural design, and places particular emphasis on a more thorough study of the attached information of architecture. This book is suitable for students majoring in urban and architectural design in universities to understand the content of communication studies related to architecture. It provides new ideas and inspiration for professional architects and architectural theorists in design practice and theoretical research, and also holds research reference value for theoretical workers in communication studies.