Chora 1: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell

Book Overview

Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.

Contents
Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto P rez-G mez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouvelle M thode of Jean-Jacques Lequeu - Jean-Fran ois B dard - Michelangelo: The Image of the Human Body, Artifice, and Architecture - Helmut Klassen - Architecture as Site of Reception - Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin - Donald Kunze - Fictional Cities - Graham Livesey - Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms - Indra Kagis McEwen - Space and Image in Andrey Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia" Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema - Juhani Pallasmaa - The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama - Stephen Parcell - The Building of a Horizon - Louise Pelletier - Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference - Natalija Subotincic.

The essays in this collection explore architectural form and content in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511938
• ISBN13: 9780773511934
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"