| Chora 3: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Volume 3 Contributor(s): Pérez-Gómez, Alberto (Author), Parcell, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 077351712X ISBN-13: 9780773517127 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism |
| Dewey: 720.1 |
| Series: Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.58" W x 9.04" (1.15 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical projects that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Pérez-Gómez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanné offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-François Viel's Letters; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena đantovská Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Sören Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins. The essays in this volume demonstrate a reconciliatory architecture that respects cultural differences, acknowledges the globalization of technological culture, and points to a referent other than itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parcell, Stephen: - CA |