Chora 3

by Perez-Gomez, Alberto; Parcell, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780773517127
• ISBN10: 077351712X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical "projects" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Perez-Gomez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanne offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-Francois Viel's "Letters"; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena oantovska Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Soren Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins. The essays in this volume demonstrate a reconciliatory architecture that respects cultural differences, acknowledges the globalization of technological culture, and points to a referent other than itself.

Author Biography

Alberto Perez-Gomez is director of the History and Theory Program and Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, McGill University. Stephen Parcell is associate professor of architecture, Dalhousie University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Invention as a Celebration of Materials	1	(24)
Myriam Blais
Sounding the Path: Dwelling and Dreaming	25	(20)
Ricardo L. Castro
Surface and Appearance in Guarino Guarini's SS. Sindone Chapel	45	(34)
Janine Debanne
To See the World as a Limited Whole: Human and Divine Perspectives in the Works of Salomon de Caus	79	(24)
Katja Grillner
Demas: The Human Body as a Tectonic Construct	103	(22)
Maria Karvouni
Juan Bautista Villalpando's Divine Model in Architectural Theory	125	(32)
Alberto Perez-Gomez
Fragmentation, Improvisation, and Urban Quality: A Heterotopian Motif in Siegfried Kracauer	157	(22)
Henrik Reeh
Vitruvius, Nietzsche, and the Architecture of the Body	179	(22)
Mark Rozahegy
A Grand Piano Filled with Sand	201	(20)
Soren Thurell
Origins and Ornaments: Jean-Jacques Lequeu and the Poetics of the City in L'Architecture Civile	221	(34)
Franca Trubiano
Architecture and the Vegetal Soul	255	(26)
David Winterton
Domesticity and Diremption: Poetics of Space in the Work of Jana Sterbak	281	(22)
Irena Zantovska Murray
Absent Bodies Writing Rooms	303	(32)
Ellen Zweig
About the Authors	335