Chora 3: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture: Volume 3 (CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 077351712X ISBN 13: 9780773517127

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical "projects" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Pérez-Gómez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanné offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-François Viel's "Letters"; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena ðantovská Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Sören Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins. The essays in this volume demonstrate a reconciliatory architecture that respects cultural differences, acknowledges the globalization of technological culture, and points to a referent other than itself.

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About the Authors

Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Chair of the History of Architecture at McGill University. Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University and author of Four Historical Definitions of Architecture.

Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 077351712X
• ISBN 13: 9780773517127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Alberto Perez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell