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Chora 5
Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
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English
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2007
About this book
Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture.
Architecture is at a crossroads - to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires determining how to affirm its relevancy within a globalized and technological culture. In a world where the supposed alternatives to the rationalist and functionalist building practices of modernity are often no more than empty formalism or extrapolation of deconstructivist positions into architecture, Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture seeks new possibilities.
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Parcell Stephen :
Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.Alberto Pérez-Gómez is the author of Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics, co-editor of the Chora series, and Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor and director, post-professional graduate program, architecture, McGill University.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Fugitives in Sight: Section and Horizon in Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Roads and a Mountain, a Lake, and a Runway: Interpreting Infrastructure at Mae Hong Son, Thailand
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Erudite Laughter: The Persiflage of Viel de Saint-Maux
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The Hybrid: Labrouste's Paestum
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Landscapes of Memory: Philosophical and Experiential Parcours at the Musée des monumens français
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Looking around the Edge of the World: Contending with the Continuist Principle and the Plenarist Passion
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Horizons at the Drafting Table: Filarete and Steinberg
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Opening the Eye: “Seeing” as “Knowing” in Vastusastra (Indian Architectural Theory) According to the Treatise Manasara
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Projecting Utopia: The Refortification of Nicosia, 1567–70
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Vitruvius and the French Landscape of Ruins: On Jean Gardet and Dominique Bertin's 1559 Annotations of De Architectura
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Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc: Figures of Ruin and Restoration
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The Enigma of Pyramids: Measuring Salvation in Renaissance Rome
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About the Authors
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July 10, 2007
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9780773560383
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360
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128 drawings
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9780773560383
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
