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

Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
xvi, 311 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Neveu, Marc J. and Djavaherian, Negin

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.The Reading Chamber / Negin Djavaherian / Marc J.Neveu -- 2.The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the death of architecture / Robert Kirkbride -- 3.Reading what is written between the lines: the esoteric dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow / Karsten Harries -- 4.On virtue and Thomas Jefferson / Paul Emmons -- 5.Made in usage: architecture in Furetière's Dictionnaire universel / Santiago de Orduna -- 6.Beyond expression / Caroline Dionne -- 7.On water and other fluids: a bloody account of urban circulation / Lily Chi -- 8.Earth or world? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination / Louise Pelletier -- 9.Tough love: a study of the architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen / Marco Frascari -- 10.Flesh of stone: buildings, statues, entangled bodies / David Leatherbarrow -- 11.Genius as Eros / Tracey Eve Winton -- 12.The tactile legacy, of Alvar Aalto and its relevance to contemporary practice / Lian Chikako Chang -- 13.Voices of tranquillity: silence in art and architecture / Natalija Subotincic -- 14.An architectural creation myth borrowed from the phenomenology of music / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 15.Modus operandi of an architectus doli: architectural cunning in the comic plays of Plautus / Stephen Parcell -- 16.Towards an ecology of the Palladian villa / Lisa Landrum -- 17.Juan O'Gorman and the genesis and overcoming of functionalism in Mexican modern architecture / Steven Holl -- 18.Architecture or acceleration: position as opposition / Juan Manuel Heredia -- 19.Building upon love in an age of innovation / Anne Bordeleau -- 20.Content and craft: what do we do when we do the history of architecture? / Peter Olshaysky.
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ISBN
9781138024212 hardcover
113802421X hardcover
9781138024229 paperback
1138024228 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Sue and Joe Paterno Libraries Support Endowment; 2014.
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