Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body - Hardcover

Krell, David Farrell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791434095 ISBN 13: 9780791434093

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the role of love and desire in all human making.

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Review

Archeticture is the work of a prodigious thinker, beautifully written, freighted with startling interpretations and incomparable scholarship. As always David Farrell Krell s insights disturb and convince. The appearance of this book is significant for several fields of study philosophy; art; architectural theory, history, and criticism. D. S. Friedman, University of Cincinnati"

"Archeticture is the work of a prodigious thinker, beautifully written, freighted with startling interpretations and incomparable scholarship. As always David Farrell Krell's insights disturb and convince. The appearance of this book is significant for several fields of study--philosophy; art; architectural theory, history, and criticism." -- D. S. Friedman, University of Cincinnati

Synopsis

The (mis)spelling in the title is intentional (though it will probably cause havoc with cataloguers, bibliographers, and proofreaders) and is central to the author's challenge to contemporary and traditional theories of architecture (the explanation of the new spelling involves tracing the Greek root tec- back to tic- and to the verb tiktein which

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0791434095
• ISBN 13: 9780791434093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224