Chora 3 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.
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- 9780773567078
- 720/.1
- NA1 .I68 1999
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Invention as a Celebration of Materials -- 2 Sounding the Path: Dwelling and Dreaming -- 3 Surface and Appearance in Guarino Guarini's -- 4 To See the World as a Limited Whole: Human and Divine Perspectives in the Works of Salomon de Caus -- 5 Demas: The Human Body as a Tectonic Construct -- 6 Juan Bautista Villalpando's Divine Model in Architectural Theory -- 7 Fragmentation, Improvisation, and Urban Quality: A Heterotopian Motif in Siegfried Kracauer -- 8 Vitruvius, Nietzsche, and the Architecture of the Body -- 9 A Grand Piano Filled with Sand -- 10 Origins and Ornaments: Jean-Jacques Lequeu and the Poetics of the City in L'Architecture Civile -- 11 Architecture and the Vegetal Soul -- 12 Domesticity and Diremption: Poetics of Space in the Work of Jana Sterbak -- 13 Absent Bodies Writing Rooms -- About the Authors.
This third volume in the CHORA series continues to explore diverse historical and critical issues in architecture. Attempting to discover architectural alternatives based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology, the contributors offer refreshing interdisciplinary explorations of architectural tradition.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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