Chora 4 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.

Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Lewis Carroll, A Man out of Joint: The Anonymous Architect of Euclid's Retreat Caroline Dionne -- 2 The Breath on the Mirror: Notes on Ruskin's Theory of the Grotesque Mark Dorrian -- 3 Alberti at Sea Michael Emerson -- 4 The Rediscovery of the Hinterland Marc Glaudemans -- 5 The Colosseum: The Cosmic Geometry of a Spectaculum George Hersey -- 6 On the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the Architecture of Memory Robert Kirkbride -- 7 Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth: Modern Symbolism in the Writing of William Richard Lethaby Joanna Merwood -- 8 Gordon Matta-Clark's Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange Michel Moussette -- 9 Geometry of Terror: Alfred Hitchcock's RearWindow Juhani Pallasmaa -- 10 The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- 11 Simplex sigillum veri: The Exemplary Life of an Architect David Theodore -- 12 Ranelagh Gardens and the Recombinatory Utopia of Masquerade Dorian Yurchuk -- About the Authors.

Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum; through early Renaissance subjects, such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture; through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from seventeenth-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the spatial poetics of architecture by invoking other artistic disciplines.

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