Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger

by Susan Bernstein

Book Overview

In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house--an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758557
• ISBN13: 9780804758550
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"