Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat

by Ruan; Xing

• ISBN13: 9780415403245
• ISBN10: 0415403243
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Topophilia and Topophobia relates our love of a place and aversion to it to the human habitats of the twentieth century, presenting a comprehensive range of case studies and philosophical musings dealing with cities and architecture.

Table of Contents

Illustration credits	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Architectural Enclosure: A Prologue to Topophilia and Topophobia	p. 1
Topo-philia and -phobia	p. 12
Time, Space, and Architecture: Some Philosophical Musings	p. 22
Topophilia/Topophobia: The Role of the Environment in the Formation of Identity	p. 31
Heterotopias and Archipelagos: The Shape of Modern Topophobia	p. 44
Agreement and Decorum: Conversations within the Architecture of Louis Kahn	p. 62
The Character of a Building: Paul Cret's Human Analogy, Louis Kahn and Yang Tingbao	p. 92
Potential Places, Places of Potentiality: Levitation and Suspension in Modern Italian Architecture	p. 114
Transparency in the Contemporary Australian House	p. 133
The Voyage and the House: Bernard Rudofsky's Search for Place	p. 150
Hot Springs, Geysers and Animated Matter	p. 170
Not Another Waikiki? Mobilizing Topophilia and Topophobia in Coastal Resort Areas	p. 185
Economy and Affect: People-Place Relationships and the Metropolis	p. 202
Epilogue: The Architectural Project as Dialogue	p. 221
Index	p. 228
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