| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Chora, 1198-449X ; v. 6 |
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Chora (Montréal, Québec) ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Lumen opacatum: flesh in Fritz Lang;s Metropolis -- On fire and the origins of architecture -- The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis -- (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: traversing the fantasy of sustenance and the topology of desire -- Writing a life from the inside of a drawing: Stendhal's -- Perceptual unfolding in the Palace of Minos -- History as storytelling in the account of the eleven orders of architecture according to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz -- Prato della Valle, reconsidered -- Situating pataphysical machines: a history of architectural machinations -- The tree, the cross, and the umbrella: architecture and the poetics of sacrifice -- Utopian knowledge: eidetics, education, and the machine -- Second life: identification, parody, and persona in William Burges's 'Vellum Sketchbook' -- Perspective Jing: the depth of architectural representation in a European-Chinese Garden encounter |
| Summary |
An interdisciplinary collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Philosophy
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Architecture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
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architectural theory.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-
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Parcell, Stephen
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| ISBN |
9780773585690 |
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0773585699 |
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9780773538580 |
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0773538585 |
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