Chora IV / edited by Alberto Perez-Gomez and Stephen Parcell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Parcell, Stephen.

McGill University. History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program.

Series:

Chora intervals in the philosophy of architecture ; 4.

Chora intervals in the philosophy of architecture ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chora IV continues a tradition of excellence in open, interdisciplinary research into architecture.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Lewis Carroll, A Man out of Joint: The Anonymous Architect of EuclidÃŒs Retreat -Caroline Dionne""; ""The Breath on the Mirror: Notes on RuskinÃŒs Theory of the Grotesque -Mark Dorrian""; ""Alberti at Sea -Michael Emerson""; ""The Rediscovery of the Hinterland -Marc Glaudemans""; ""The Colosseum: The Cosmic Geometry of a Spectaculum -George Hersey""; ""On the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the Architecture of Memory -Robert Kirkbride""

""Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth: Modern Symbolism in the Writing of William Richard Lethaby -Joanna Merwood""""Gordon Matta-ClarkÃŒs Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange -Michel Moussette""; ""Geometry of Terror: Alfred HitchcockÃŒs RearWindow -Juhani Pallasmaa""; ""The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli -Alberto Perez- Gomez""; ""Simplex sigillum veri: The Exemplary Life of an Architect -David Theodore""; ""Ranelagh Gardens and the Recombinatory Utopia of Masquerade -Dorian Yurchuk""; ""About the Authors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-86092-5

9786612860928

0-7735-7080-2

OCLC:

929120676