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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779249203321

Autore

Pérez-Gómez Alberto

Titolo

Chora . Volume 6 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-52935-1

9786613841803

0-7735-8569-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Chora, , 1198-449X ; ; v. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Pérez GómezAlberto

ParcellStephen

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architecture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Intervals in the philosophy of architecture."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.