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Author Benjamin, Andrew E.

Title Architectural philosophy / Andrew Benjamin
Published London : Athlone Press, 2000

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  720.1 Ben/Aph  DUE 29-07-23
Description viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. Complex Spacing -- 1. Time, function and alterity in architecture -- 2. Resisting ambivalence: form and function in Eisenman's architecture -- 3. Opening resisting forms: recent projects of Reiser and Umemoto -- Pt. II. Architectural Theory -- 4. Building experience: Kant and Leibniz -- 5. Building philosophy: towards architectural theory -- 6. Lines of work: on diagrams and drawings -- Pt. III. Body, Place and History -- 7. Housing the future: the architecture of Blade Runner -- 8. Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change -- 9. Interrupting confession, resisting absolution: monuments after the Holocaust
Notes CIP sub-title: repetition, function, alterity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture.
Architecture -- Philosophy.
LC no. 00038944
ISBN 0485004151 case alkaline paper
0485006057 paperback alkaline paper