Chora 2: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 9780773566019
In this second volume in the Chora series, contributing authors take an interdisciplinary approach to architecture and o
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English Pages 336 Year 1996
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1 Socrates in the Agora
2 On the Use of Architecture: The Destination of Buildings Revisited
3 Hermes' Laugh: Philibert de l'Orme's Imagery as a Case of Analogical Edification
4 The Angel and the Mirror: Reflections on the Architecture of the Amalgam
5 Lessons of a Dream
6 Architecture as a Site of Reception. Part II: Sea-Food and Vampires
7 Concrete Blonde: A Probe into Negative Space where Mysteries are Created
8 Surrealist Paris: The Non-Perspectival Space of the Lived City
9 The Metaphoric Architecture of the Diorama
10 The Legend of the Golem
11 Paradoxical Spaces in Literature, Film and Architecture: A Dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet
12 When the Old Mirror is not yet Polished, What Would You Say of it?
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