Chora, Volume 2 : Intervals in the philosophy of architecture

Chora, Volume 2 : Intervals in the philosophy of architecture / edited by Alberto Peŕez-Goḿez and Stephen Parcell.

In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and other cultural concerns, challenging readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological reductions.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949- (Editor), Parcell, Stephen, 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : Published for the History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University by McGill-Queen's University Press, [1996]
Series:Chora ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
Architecture > Philosophy
Buildings
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Socrates in the Agora / Gregory Paul Caicco
  • 2. On the use of architecture : the destination of buildings revisited / Lily H. Chi
  • 3. Hermes' laugh : Philibert de l'Orme's imagery as a case of analogical edification / Jean-Pierre Chupin
  • 4. The angel and the mirror : reflections on the architecture of the amalgam / Terrance Galvin
  • 5. Lessons of a dream / Karsten Harries
  • 6. Architecture as a site of reception. Part II. Sea-food and vampires / Donald Kunze
  • 7. Concrete blonde : a probe into negative space where mysteries are created / Joanna Merwood
  • 8. Surrealist Paris : the non-perspectival space of the lived city / Dagmar Motycka Weston
  • 9. The metaphoric architecture of the diorama / Stephen Parcell
  • 10. The legend of the golem / Bram Ratner
  • 11. Paradoxical spaces in literature, film and architecture : a dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet / Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alberto Pérez-Gómez
  • 12. When the old mirror is not yet polished, what would you say of it? / Tracey Eve Winton.

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