Chora. volume seven / edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Stephen Parcell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, Author.

Contributor:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949- editor.

Parcell, Stephen, 1954- editor.

Series:

CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]

Summary:

A diverse collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.

Contents:

1 Monumentality and Contemporaneity in the Work of Tarkovsky, Goldsworthy, and Zumthor / Anne Bordeleau

2 The Public Boudoir of an Actress: The Petite Maison of Mademoiselle Dervieux / Diana Cheng

3 Peter Brook's "Empty Space": Orghast at Persepolis / Negin Djavaherian

4 Bodies, Books, and Buildings: Encountering the Renaissance Frontispiece / Paul Emmons

5 "More Powerful than Love": Imagination and Language in the Oikéma of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux / Paul Holmquist

6 Adrien Auzout and the Origins of the Paris Observatory / Ron Jelaco

7 Constructing Architectural History in the Joseon Industrial Exhibition of 1915 / Yoonchun Jung

8 Silence and Communal Ritual in an Athonian Coenobitic Monastery / Christos Kakalis

9 The Language of the Street: A Vocabulary of Communal Space / Robert Nelson

10 The Laughing Girls / Marc J Neveu

11 Filarete's Sforzinda: The Ideal City as a Poetic and Rhetorical Construction / Alberto Pérez-Gómez

12 Is the Endless a House? / Angeliki Sioli

13 The Juridical Character of Alberti's Mind / Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou

14 The Architecture of Anselm Kiefer: La Ribaute and the Space of Dramatic Representation / Stephen Wischer

15 Chōra before Plato: Architecture, Drama, and Receptivity / Lisa Landrum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7735-9879-0

OCLC:

946889132