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Chora, Volume Six : 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, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773585690
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chora, Volume SixLOC classification:
  • NA2500 .C46 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- 2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture -- 3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis -- 4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire -- 5 Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal's -- 6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos -- 7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz -- 8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered -- 9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations -- 10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice -- 11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine -- 12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges's "Vellum Sketchbook" -- 13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter -- About the Authors.
Summary: Thirteen diverse essays in Chora 6 reconsider cultural and historical roots of architecture and explore contemporary venues for architectural action.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- 2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture -- 3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis -- 4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire -- 5 Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal's -- 6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos -- 7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz -- 8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered -- 9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations -- 10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice -- 11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine -- 12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges's "Vellum Sketchbook" -- 13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter -- About the Authors.

Thirteen diverse essays in Chora 6 reconsider cultural and historical roots of architecture and explore contemporary venues for architectural action.

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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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