Chora : intervals in the philosophy of architecture
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Chora : intervals in the philosophy of architecture
Published for the History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program, McGill University by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994-c2004
- v. 1 : cloth
- v. 1 : paper
- v. 2 : cloth
- v. 2 : paper
- v. 3 : cloth
- v. 3 : paper
- v. 4 : pbk
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Description
This work explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions. The essays in this collection explore architectural form and concept in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices.
Table of Contents
- Chora - the space of architectural representation, Alberto Perez-Gomez
- the measure of expression - physiognomy and character in the "nouvelle methode" of Jean-Jacques Leque, Jean-Francois Bedard
- Michelangelo - the image of the human body, artifice, and architecture, Helmut Klassen
- architecture as site of reception, Part 1 - 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.
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