The dynamics of delight: architecture and aesthetics

Peter Frederick Smith

Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2003 - Architecture - 229 pages

Rounding off decades of exploration into the various ways in which buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind, The Dynamics of Delight emphasizes the qualitative aspects of form and space, providing designers with an analytical framework in which to evaluate projects on an aesthetic level. In laying the foundations for an appreciation of the aesthetic component in architecture, Smith considers the mechanisms which are involved in the aesthetic response and goes on to consider how human perception may be influenced by natural phenomena and draws on chaos theory and biomathematics to illustrate this original argument.

About the author

Until recently Peter F. Smith was the Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects with special responsibility for sustainable development and Professor of Architecture at Sheffield Hallam University. Prior to that he was Head of the Leeds School of Architecture of which he is Professor Emeritus.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The dynamics of delight: architecture and aesthetics
• Author: Peter Frederick Smith
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2003
• ISBN: 041530010X, 9780415300100
• Length: 229 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Criticism; Architecture / History / General; Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning; Philosophy / Aesthetics