Surrealism and architecture / edited by Thomas Mical.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mical, Thomas, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern movement (Architecture).

Surrealism--Influence.

Surrealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors, cities and landscapes of the twentieth century are revealed. The book contains a diversity of voice

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas Mical

'Un salon au fond d'un lac': the domestic spaces of surrealism / Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Aragon's armoire / Gray Read

"Home poor heart": the architecture of Cornell's desire / Dickran Tashjian

Matta's lucid lanscape / Bryan Dolin

Menace: surrealist interference of space / Silvano Levy

Daphne's legacy: architecture, psychoanalysis and petrification in Lacan and Dali / Spyros Papapetros

The ghost in the machine / Alexander Gorlin

"...The gift of time"L Le Corbusier reading Bataille / Nadir Lahiji

Introjection and projection: Frederick Kiesler and his dream machine / Stephen Phillips

Invernizzi's exquisite corpse: the Villa Girasole: an architecture of surrationalism / David J. Lewis ... [et al.]

The tangency of the world to itself: the Casa Malaparte and the metaphysical tradition / Jacqueline Gargus

Modernist urbanism and its monsters / David Pinder

Surrealism and the irrational embellishment of Paris / Raymond Spiteri

Re-enchanting the city: the utopian practices of the Paris group of the surrealist movement / Jill Fenton

Landscape surrealism / Fernando Magallanes

Surreal city: the case of Brasilia / Richard J. Williams

Latencies and imago: Blanchot and the shadow city of surrealism / M. Stone-Richards

Surrealism's unexplored possibilities in architecture / Jean La Marche

The most architectural thing / Kari Jormakka

Acropolis, now! / James Williamson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-350) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-34345-0

1-280-09613-6

0-203-33954-1

1-134-34346-9

1-283-96361-2

9780203339541

OCLC:

437059235