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Browsing by Author "Harlach, Timothy J."

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    A scholastic center for political science majors: an indoor street
    Harlach, Timothy J. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996)
    "A building is a small city, a city is a large building." Alberti Even though Alberti wrote this quote hundreds of years ago, it still raises relevant design issues that can be explored in the architecture of today’s buildings. The quote addresses a modern architectural question in the design of large scale mixed use buildings by offering an architect the similarities between city-building and building interior spaces. These relationships all share design possibilities such as views, thresholds, passageways, public spaces, private spaces, places for activity, and places for rest. These are just a few of the physical and emotional ties that allow a city/building/interior space the opportunity to relate to its surroundings and ultimately create its surroundings.