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Chora 6Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture |
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.
Thirteen diverse essays in Chora 6 reconsider cultural and historical roots of architecture and explore contemporary venues for architectural action.
Different concepts of the machine are pursued in essays on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Alfred Jarry's pataphysical machines, and cosmological and political orders in sixteenth-century utopias. Cross-cultural tensions are examined in essays on the Christian appropriation of Aztec symbolism, and on Jesuit perspectives in an imperial Chinese garden in Beijing. Architectural origins and education are revisited in essays on fire and language in Vitruvius, on storytelling by Spanish theorist Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, and on the role of history in the design of the Prato della Valle, a public square in Padua.
Phenomenal experience is the focus of essays on light and stone in the Gothic church of Saint-Denis, and on bodily movement through the ancient Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. Tensions in architectural representation are investigated in essays on the influence of Villard de Honnecourt on drawings by William Burges in Victorian England, and on Stendhal's curious narrative drawings in his book Vie de Henry Brulard. Contemporary beliefs are scrutinized in an essay that uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the modern concept of sustainability.
Different concepts of the machine are pursued in essays on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Alfred Jarry's pataphysical machines, and cosmological and political orders in sixteenth-century utopias. Cross-cultural tensions are examined in essays on the Christian appropriation of Aztec symbolism, and on Jesuit perspectives in an imperial Chinese garden in Beijing. Architectural origins and education are revisited in essays on fire and language in Vitruvius, on storytelling by Spanish theorist Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, and on the role of history in the design of the Prato della Valle, a public square in Padua.
Phenomenal experience is the focus of essays on light and stone in the Gothic church of Saint-Denis, and on bodily movement through the ancient Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. Tensions in architectural representation are investigated in essays on the influence of Villard de Honnecourt on drawings by William Burges in Victorian England, and on Stendhal's curious narrative drawings in his book Vie de Henry Brulard. Contemporary beliefs are scrutinized in an essay that uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the modern concept of sustainability.
Details
Part of the CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture Series (number 6 in series)
328 Pages, 6.75 x 9.25
ISBN 9780773538580
June 2011
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
Alberto Pérez-Gómez holds the Saidye Rosner Bronfman Chair of the History of Architecture at McGill University. He is the author of several books, including Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics.
Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Four Historical Definitions of Architecture.
Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University. He is the author of a forthcoming book, Four Historical Definitions of Architecture.
Chora 6
Edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell
Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Lawrence Bird 1
2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture
Lian Chang 25
3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis
Jason Crow 55
4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire
Donald Kunze 75
5 Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard
Mari Lending 91
6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos
Rachel McCann 113
7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz
Maria Elisa Navarro Morales 143
8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered
Marc J. Neveu 159
9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations
Peter Olshavsky 181
10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice 211
Santiago de Orduña
11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine
Jonathan Powers 229
12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges’s "Vellum Sketchbook"
Nicholas Roquet 249
13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter
Hui Zou 275
About the Authors 305
Edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell
Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Lawrence Bird 1
2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture
Lian Chang 25
3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis
Jason Crow 55
4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire
Donald Kunze 75
5 Writing a Life from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard
Mari Lending 91
6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos
Rachel McCann 113
7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz
Maria Elisa Navarro Morales 143
8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered
Marc J. Neveu 159
9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations
Peter Olshavsky 181
10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice 211
Santiago de Orduña
11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine
Jonathan Powers 229
12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges’s "Vellum Sketchbook"
Nicholas Roquet 249
13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter
Hui Zou 275
About the Authors 305
