Pérez-Gómez, Alberto. <br/><br/>
Chora, Volume Six :  Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (323 pages) 
 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Series ;  v.6 .
 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Thirteen diverse essays in Chora 6 reconsider cultural and historical roots of architecture and explore contemporary venues for architectural action. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773585690 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture-Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2500 .C46 2011