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Architecture's appeal : how theory informs architectural praxis / [edited by] Marc J. Neveu, Negin Djavaherian.

Contributor(s): Neveu, Marc J [editor.] | Djavaherian, Negin [editor.].
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2015Description: xvi, 311 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781138024229 (pbk.) :; 1138024228 (pbk.) :.Contained works: Kirkbride, Robert. Reading chamber.Subject(s): Architecture -- Philosophy | Architectural practice | ARCHITECTURE / General | ARCHITECTURE / Criticism | ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction Marc Neveu and Negin Djavaherian Part 1: Invoking the Gods 1. The Reading Chamber Robert Kirkbride 2. The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Architecture Karsten Harries 4. Reading What is Written Between the Lines: The Esoteric Dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow Paul Emmons 4.On Virtue and Thomas Jefferson Indra Kagis McEwen Interlude A: The Architect's Fall Santiago de Orduna Part 2: Worldmaking 5. Made in Usage: Architecture in Furetiere's Dictionnaire Universel Caroline Dionne 6. Beyond Expression Lily Chi 7. On Water and Other Fluids: A Bloody Account of Urban Circulation Louise Pelletier 8. Earth or World? Aerial Image and the Prosthetic Imagination Lawrence Bird Interlude B: The Door of Theory Marco Frascari Part 3: Flesh/Eros 9. Tough Love: A Study of the Architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen David Leatherbarrow 10. Flesh of Stone: Buildings, Statues, Entangled Bodies Tracey Eve Winton 11. Genius as Eros Lian Chikako Chang 12. The Tactile Legacy of Alvar Aalto and its Relevance to Contemporary Practice Kenneth Frampton Interlude C: Sigmund Freud or the Dark <STRIKE>Forest Room Revisited Natalija Subotincic Part 4: Fusion of Horizons 13. Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa 14. An Architectural Creation Myth Borrowed from the Phenomenology of Music Stephen Parcell 15. Modus Operandi of an Architectus Doli: Architectural Cunning in the Comic Plays of Plautus Lisa Landrum 16. Towards an Ecology of the Palladian Villa Graham Livesey Interlude D: Transformative Power of Architecture Steven Holl Part 5: After the Crisis 17. Juan O'Gorman and the Genesis and Overcoming of Functionalism in Mexican Modern Architecture Juan Manuel Heredia 18. Architecture or Acceleration: Position as Opposition Anne Bordeleau 19. Building Upon Love in an Age of Innovation Peter Olshavsky 20. Content and Craft: What do we do when we do the History of Architecture? David Theodore Interlude E: Two Poems 2000-2011 Ricardo L. Castro List of Figures. List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements. Introduction Marc Neveu and Negin Djavaherian Part 1: Invoking the Gods 1. The Reading Chamber Robert Kirkbride 2. The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Architecture Karsten Harries 4. Reading What is Written Between the Lines: The Esoteric Dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow Paul Emmons 4.On Virtue and Thomas Jefferson Indra Kagis McEwen Interlude A: The Architect's Fall Santiago de Orduna Part 2: Worldmaking 5. Made in Usage: Architecture in Furetiere's Dictionnaire Universel Caroline Dionne 6. Beyond Expression Lily Chi 7. On Water and Other Fluids: A Bloody Account of Urban Circulation Louise Pelletier 8. Earth or World? Aerial Image and the Prosthetic Imagination Lawrence Bird Interlude B: The Door of Theory Marco Frascari Part 3: Flesh/Eros 9. Tough Love: A Study of the Architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen David Leatherbarrow 10. Flesh of Stone: Buildings, Statues, Entangled Bodies Tracey Eve Winton 11. Genius as Eros Lian Chikako Chang 12. The Tactile Legacy of Alvar Aalto and its Relevance to Contemporary Practice Kenneth Frampton Interlude C: Sigmund Freud or the Dark <STRIKE>Forest Room Revisited Natalija Subotincic Part 4: Fusion of Horizons 13. Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa 14. An Architectural Creation Myth Borrowed from the Phenomenology of Music Stephen Parcell 15. Modus Operandi of an Architectus Doli: Architectural Cunning in the Comic Plays of Plautus Lisa Landrum 16. Towards an Ecology of the Palladian Villa Graham Livesey Interlude D: Transformative Power of Architecture Steven Holl Part 5: After the Crisis 17. Juan O'Gorman and the Genesis and Overcoming of Functionalism in Mexican Modern Architecture Juan Manuel Heredia 18. Architecture or Acceleration: Position as Opposition Anne Bordeleau 19. Building Upon Love in an Age of Innovation Peter Olshavsky 20. Content and Craft: What do we do when we do the History of Architecture? David Theodore Interlude E: Two Poems 2000-2011 Ricardo L. Castro List of Figures. List of Contributors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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