Chora

by Perez-Gomez, Alberto; Parcell, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780773517110
• ISBN10: 0773517111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

This third volume in the CHORA series continues to explore diverse historical and critical issues in architecture. Attempting to discover architectural alternatives based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology, the contributors offer refreshing interdisciplinary explorations of architectural tradition.

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