But by means of words it is possible to help others to experience it what I shall attempt to do here.” I think he is completely right and he is successful with his attempt (for me). He says that ”Art should not be explained, it must be experienced. I had a chance to read the first chapter which is “īasic Observations”. Rasmussen sees the architecture dicipline as a work of art, so he generally compares architecutre and the other arts with a basic language so that everyone can understand even if he or she has no idea about architecture. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947.Įxperiencing Architecture was first published in 1959. He was author of London: The Unique City, called “the best book on London as a town,” and other books. Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Danish architect and urban planner who was a Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and visiting professor at M.I.T., Yale, Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Berkeley, and lectured widely at universities in Europe and the United States.
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