Chora : intervals in the philosophy of architecture

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Chora : intervals in the philosophy of architecture

edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell

McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994

  • v. 1 : cloth

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Includes bibliografical references

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Description

Contents Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto Perez-Gomez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouvelle Methode of Jean-Jacques Lequeu - Jean-Francois Bedard - 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.

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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  • NCID
    BD00526057
  • ISBN
    • 0773511938
  • Country Code
    cn
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Montreal
  • Pages/Volumes
    277 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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