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Author Benjamin, Andrew E.

Title Architectural philosophy / Andrew Benjamin
Published London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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
Summary Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy explores both the definition of the site and the possibility of alterity. The analysis of the nature of the present and the complex sructure of repetition allows for the possibility of j
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Architecture -- Philosophy
Architecture.
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture, Modern.
architecture (discipline)
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture, Modern
Architecture and philosophy
Architecture
Architecture -- Philosophy
Ästhetik
Architektur
Arkitekturfilosofi.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00038944
ISBN 1847141706
9781847141705
9780485006056
0485006057
1472545435
9781472545435
1281291579
9781281291578
9786611291570
6611291571