Structures implicit and explicit / edited by James Bryan and Rolf Sauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, James, comp.

Contributor:

Sauer, Rolf, joint comp.

University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Wittenborn Art Books, Inc., Distributor.

Falcon Press (Philadelphia, Pa.), Printer.

Series:

Via (Philadelphia, Pa.) ; 2.

Via ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Structural engineering.

Semiotics and architecture.

Physical Description:

203, [1] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania : distributed by Wittenborn, New York, 1973.

Contents:

Dictionnaire philosophique: architectural entries / Maria Bottero

Ornamentation / Antonio Gaudí

Arch building / Robert Maillart

Meaning in Maillart / David P. Billington

Significant structures / Peter Caws

Intuition and the springs of structural invention / Rowland J. Mainstone

On creativity / David Bohm

Abstract / William S. Burroughs

Interviews with Robert Le Ricolais: things themselves are lying, and so are their images

Matières / Robert Le Ricolais and Henriette Grindat

Pioneer zone/markets / Claude Lévi-strauss

Function and sign: semiotics of architecture / Umberto Eco

Seminology and urbanism / Roland Barthes

Interviews with Louis I Kahn: clearing

The Tour Eiffel / Rowland Barthes

Notes, etc.

Notes:

Illustrated, double t.p.

Publication information on t.p. verso.

"Printed at the Falcon Press, Philadelphia."

Series statement from half-title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in black and white patterned paper covers.

ISBN:

81500169X

OCLC:

778685