Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Socrates in the Agora 1
5. On the Use of Architecture: The Destination of Buildings Revisited 17
6. Hermes' Laugh: Philibert de 1’Orme’s Imagery as a Case of Analogical Edification 37
7. The Angel and the Mirror: Reflections on the Architecture of the Amalgam 69
8. Lessons of a Dream 91
9. Architecture as Site of Reception.Part II: Sea-Food and Vampires1 109
10. Concrete Blonde: A Probe into Negative Space where Mysteries are Created 135
11. Surrealist Paris: The Non-Perspectival Space of the Lived City 149
12. The Metaphoric Architecture of the Diorama 179
13. The Legend of the Golem 217
14. Paradoxical Spaces in Literature, Film and Architecture: A Dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet 245
15. When the Old Mirror is not yet Polished, What Would You Say of it? 269
16. About the Authors 321