The Architect's Dream : Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination / Sean Pickersgill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickersgill, Sean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Books, [2023]

Summary:

The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost an expression of the creative mind. 63 b/w illus.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

The Architect's Dream

Introduction: Architects Must Dream

1: The Mutability of Objects

Proposition 1: The Large Glass

Proposition 2: Inside the Box

Proposition 3: Life's Harvest

Proposition 4: Site Cycle

2: Memory

Proposition 5: Calvino's City of Memory

Proposition 6: The Machine of History

Proposition 7: Redemptive Objects

Proposition 8: Borges's Library

3: Reflective/Reflexive

Proposition 9: Glass and Glas

Proposition 10: No City

Proposition 11: No Interior

Proposition 12: No Form

4: War

Proposition 13: Conflict

Proposition 14: Healing

Proposition 15: Hygiene

5: Language

Proposition 16: Language

Proposition 17: Ecological Symbiosis

Proposition 18: Flat Out

6: Destruction

Proposition 19: Fire

Proposition 20: Plato's Cave

Proposition 21: Earth

Proposition 22: Clouds

Proposition 23: Perversions

7: Measure

Proposition 24: Money

Proposition 25: Wittgenstein

Proposition 26: Contractual Obligation

Proposition 27: Life

8: Site

Proposition 28: Site Affectivity/Transgressions

Proposition 29: Highway

Proposition 30: High Way

Proposition 31: Manufactured

Proposition 32: Other Ecologies

9: Fidelity

Proposition 33: Synaesthetic

Proposition 34: Fidelity

Proposition 35: Non-Euclidean

10: Melancholy

Proposition 36: Soap

Proposition 37: Shopping

Proposition 38: Working Models

Proposition 39: Odysseus

11: Metamorphosis

Proposition 40: Metamorphosis

Proposition 41: Bestiary

Proposition 42: Kennels

Proposition 43: Mechanization Takes Command

12: Fiction

Proposition 44: Future Archaeology

Proposition 45: Dreams

Proposition 46: Doppelgänger

Proposition 47: Cinema

Proposition 48: The Puzzle

13: Crime

Proposition 49: Forgeries.

Proposition 50: Detectives

Proposition 51: TV Eye

Proposition 52: Punishment

Proposition 53: Cannibalism

14: Surface

Proposition 54: Knots

Proposition 55: Collage

Proposition 56: Discotheque

Proposition 57: Sfumato

15: Hope

Proposition 58: Hope

Proposition 59: Tractatus

Proposition 60: Trust

Afterword

Constant Gardening

Bibliography

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789387414

1789387418

9781789387421

1789387426