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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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
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
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