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Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature - Softcover

Chiesa, Laura

 
9780810133457: Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0810133458 ISBN 13: 9780810133457
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected cross-pollinate. In Space as Storyteller, Laura Chiesa explores several stories across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multiple and potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought and practice of Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas/OMA. Space as Storyteller diverts attention from isolated disciplines and historical or geographical contexts toward transdisciplinary encounters that mobilize the potential to invent new spaces of comparison, a potential the author describes as ""architecturability.

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About the Author

Laura Chiesa is an assistant professor of Italian at SUNY Buffalo, USA.

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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810133458
ISBN 13 
9780810133457
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352