Constructions (Writing Architecture)

Rajchman, John

ISBN 10: 0262680963 / ISBN 13: 9780262680967

Published by The MIT Press, 1998

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Paperback in acceptable condition. Ex-library with shelfwear, wear to corners. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. A few markings, though most of text is unmarked. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 309264

Bibliographic Details

Title: Constructions (Writing Architecture)

Publisher: The MIT Press

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis:

In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression.

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In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression.