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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777746603321

Autore

Pérez-Gomez Alberto

Titolo

Chora IV [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alberto Pérez-Gomez and Stephen Parcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal ; ; London, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-86092-5

9786612860928

0-7735-7080-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Chora intervals in the philosophy of architecture ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

Pérez GómezAlberto <1949->

ParcellStephen

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architecture - Philosophy

Architecture

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""; ""Lewis Carroll, A Man out of Joint: The Anonymous Architect of EuclidÃŒs Retreat -Caroline Dionne""; ""The Breath on the Mirror: Notes on RuskinÃŒs Theory of the Grotesque -Mark Dorrian""; ""Alberti at Sea -Michael Emerson""; ""The Rediscovery of the Hinterland -Marc Glaudemans""; ""The Colosseum: The Cosmic Geometry of a Spectaculum -George Hersey""; ""On the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the Architecture of Memory -Robert Kirkbride""

""Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth: Modern Symbolism in the Writing of William Richard Lethaby -Joanna Merwood""""Gordon Matta-ClarkÃŒs Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange -Michel Moussette""; ""Geometry of Terror: Alfred HitchcockÃŒs RearWindow -Juhani Pallasmaa""; ""The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli -Alberto Perez- Gomez""; ""Simplex sigillum veri: The Exemplary Life of an Architect -David Theodore""; ""Ranelagh Gardens and the Recombinatory Utopia of Masquerade -Dorian Yurchuk""; ""About the Authors""

Sommario/riassunto

Chora IV continues a tradition of excellence in open, interdisciplinary research into architecture.