Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Monumentality and Contemporaneity in the Work of Tarkovsky, Goldsworthy, and Zumthor 1
5. The Public Boudoir of an Actress: The Petite Maison of Mademoiselle Dervieux 21
6. Peter Brook’s “Empty Space”: Orghast at Persepolis 47
7. Bodies, Books, and Buildings: Encountering the Renaissance Frontispiece 69
8. “More Powerful than Love”: Imagination and Language in the Oikéma of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 95
9. Adrien Auzout and the Origins of the Paris Observatory 117
10. Constructing Architectural History in the Joseon Industrial Exhibition of 1915 141
11. Silence and Communal Ritual in an Athonian Coenobitic Monastery 163
12. The Language of the Street: A Vocabulary of Communal Space 189
13. The Laughing Girls 217
14. Filarete’s Sforzinda: The Ideal City as a Poetic and Rhetorical Construction 243
15. Is the Endless a House? 263
16. The Juridical Character of Alberti’s Mind 285
17. The Architecture of Anselm Kiefer: La Ribaute and the Space of Dramatic Representation 303
18. Chōra before Plato: Architecture, Drama, and Receptivity 323
19. About the Authors 359