Toward an architecture of enjoyment / Henri Lefebvre

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Henri.

Contributor:

Stanek, Łukasz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architecture--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Summary:

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre's influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance-of pleasure or enjoyment-centered on the body and its rhythms

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Translator's Note

Introduction. A Manuscript Found in Saragossa: Toward an Architecture

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

1. The Question

2. The Scope of the Inquiry

3. The Quest

4. Objections

5. Philosophy

6. Anthropology

7. History

8. Psychology and Psychoanalysis

9. Semantics and Semiology

10. Economics

11. Architecture

12. Conclusion (Injunctions)

Notes

Index

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ISBN:

1-4529-4197-1

9780816677207

9781452941974