Chora 1: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Volume 1 Contributor(s): Pérez-Gómez, Alberto (Author), Parcell, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773511938 ISBN-13: 9780773511934 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1994 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | History - General |
Dewey: 720.1 |
Series: Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.6" W x 9.24" (1.17 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Contents Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto Pérez-Gómez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouvelle Méthode of Jean-Jacques Lequeu - Jean-François Bédard - Michelangelo: The Image of the Human Body, Artifice, and Architecture - Helmut Klassen - Architecture as Site of Reception - Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin - Donald Kunze - Fictional Cities - Graham Livesey - Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms - Indra Kagis McEwen - Space and Image in Andrey Tarkovsky's Nostalgia: Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema - Juhani Pallasmaa - The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama - Stephen Parcell - The Building of a Horizon - Louise Pelletier - Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference - Natalija Subotincic. The essays in this collection explore architectural form and content in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parcell, Stephen: - CA |