Pérez-Gómez, Alberto.

Chora 1 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages) - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Series ; v.1 . - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation -- The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in Lequeu's "Nouvelle Méthode -- Michelangelo: The Image of the Human Body, Artifice, and Architecture -- Architecture as Site of Reception - Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin -- Fictional Cities -- Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms -- Space and Image in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia": Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema -- The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama -- The Building of a Horizon -- Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference -- About the Authors.

Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.

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