Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity by Andrew Benjamin
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Architectural Philosophy
Summary
This text outlines a philosophical account of architecture and attempts to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. The essays touch on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory, the work of Eisenman and the dystopias of science fiction.
Architectural Philosophy Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Complex spacing: time, function and alterity in architecture; resisting ambivalence - form and function in Eisenmann's architecture; opening resistant forms - recent projects of Reiser and Umemoto. Part 2 Architectural theory: building experience; building philosophy - towards architectural theory; lines of work - on diagrams and drawing. Part 3 Body, place and history: housing the future - the architecture of Bladerunner; policing the body - Descartes and the architecture of change; interrupting confession, resisting absolution -monuments after the Holocaust; guide to further reading.
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NPB9780485004151
9780485004151
0485004151
Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity by Andrew Benjamin
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2000-10-01
256
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