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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454557503321

Titolo

Chora [[electronic resource] ] : intervals in the philosophy of architecture . Volume 2 / / edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : Published for the History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996

ISBN

1-282-85393-7

9786612853937

0-7735-6601-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Chora ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

Pérez GómezAlberto <1949->

ParcellStephen

Disciplina

720

Soggetti

Architecture - Philosophy

Buildings

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""