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.