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Chora 2 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773566019
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chora 2LOC classification:
  • NA2500 .C462 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Socrates in the Agora -- 2 On the Use of Architecture: The Destination of Buildings Revisited -- 3 Hermes' Laugh: Philibert de l'Orme's Imagery as a Case of Analogical Edification -- 4 The Angel and the Mirror: Reflections on the Architecture of the Amalgam -- 5 Lessons of a Dream -- 6 Architecture as a Site of Reception. Part II: Sea-Food and Vampires -- 7 Concrete Blonde: A Probe into Negative Space where Mysteries are Created -- 8 Surrealist Paris: The Non-Perspectival Space of the Lived City -- 9 The Metaphoric Architecture of the Diorama -- 10 The Legend of the Golem -- 11 Paradoxical Spaces in Literature, Film and Architecture: A Dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet -- 12 When the Old Mirror is not yet Polished, What Would You Say of it? -- About the Authors.
Summary: In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and other cultural concerns, challenging readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological reductions.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Socrates in the Agora -- 2 On the Use of Architecture: The Destination of Buildings Revisited -- 3 Hermes' Laugh: Philibert de l'Orme's Imagery as a Case of Analogical Edification -- 4 The Angel and the Mirror: Reflections on the Architecture of the Amalgam -- 5 Lessons of a Dream -- 6 Architecture as a Site of Reception. Part II: Sea-Food and Vampires -- 7 Concrete Blonde: A Probe into Negative Space where Mysteries are Created -- 8 Surrealist Paris: The Non-Perspectival Space of the Lived City -- 9 The Metaphoric Architecture of the Diorama -- 10 The Legend of the Golem -- 11 Paradoxical Spaces in Literature, Film and Architecture: A Dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet -- 12 When the Old Mirror is not yet Polished, What Would You Say of it? -- About the Authors.

In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and other cultural concerns, challenging readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological reductions.

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