Boredom, architecture and spatial experience / Christian Parreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parreno, Christian, author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Phychological aspects.

Architecture.

Boredom.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

Summary:

"Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is a by-product of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with modern architecture - one that has been little-explored in architectural history and theory. Boredom, Architecture and Spatial Experience explores that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern architectural experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history from the nineteenth century to the present, to explore how boredom became a normalized component of modernity, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of modern architecture, and how it serves to expose moments of crisis in the architecture of the twentieth century. Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to art theory and sociology to make its case. Combining archival material, literary sources and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers (including Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, and Jorge Silvetti), it reveals the complexity and importance of boredom in the experience and practice of architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Component of Modernity

pt. 1 Differential Distances

2. Fascination and Aversion

3. Soren Kierkegaard's Babylonian Tower

4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness

5. Blunting and Jading

6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures

pt. 2 Circular Trajectories

7. A Unity of Disarray

8. Martin Heidegger's Urge to Be at Home

9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom

10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion

11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough

pt. 3 Extended Thresholds

12. Potential Architectures

13. Andrew Benjamin's Antithesis to Boredom

14. Boredom in Domus

15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk

16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic

17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2017, under the title: Boredom as space : episodes of modern architecture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

Online version: Parreno, Christian. Boredom, architecture and spatial experience

ISBN:

9781350148130

135014813X

9781350213647

1350213640

OCLC:

1192305355

Publisher Number:

99986792466