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Chora 1: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Volume 1
Contributor(s): Pérez-Gómez, Alberto (Author), Parcell, Stephen (Author)
ISBN: 0773511938     ISBN-13: 9780773511934
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 1994
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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
 
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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