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

• Autore: Pérez-Gómez Alberto
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1
• Soggetto topico: Architecture - Philosophy
• Altri autori: Pérez GómezAlberto ParcellStephen
• 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 Langâ€?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: Stendhalâ€?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 Burgesâ€?s “Vellum Sketchbookâ€?""; ""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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chora
• ISBN: 1-283-52935-1; 9786613841803; 0-7735-8569-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779249203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chora (Montréal, Québec) ; ; v. 6.