Books by Alban Janson

Architecture is an experience - with the intellect and with all our senses, in motion, and in use. But in order to actually discuss and assess it with relevance, a clarification of terms is essential in order to avoid the vagueness that often prevails when talking about architecture.This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like "e;roof,"e; "e;base,"e; "e;wall,"e; and "e;axis"e; or "e;proportion"e;. The point is to describe the experience of architecture: how exactly does it contribute to the experience of a situation? For instance, the staging of an entrance situation, or the layout and visitor routes through a museum.From "e;context,"e; through "e;guidance,"e; "e;readability,"e; "e;patina,"e; "e;spatial structure,"e; "e;symmetry"e; and "e;tectonics,"e; to "e;width"e; (and "e;narrowness"e;) or "e;window,"e; the most important terms in architectural language are explained precisely and in detail.