Chora

by Perez-Gomez, Alberto; Parcell, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780773525030
• ISBN10: 0773525033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum; through early Renaissance subjects, such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture; through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from seventeenth-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the spatial poetics of architecture by invoking other artistic disciplines. Essays in this group include a discussion of the accomplishments of Gordon Matta-Clark, a reading of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and an analysis of the implications of ethical/formal questions in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein for architecture. Contributors include Caroline Dionne (Université de Québec à Montréal), Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh), Michael Emerson (University of New South Wales), Marc Glaudemans (University of Technology), George Hersey (emeritus, Yale University), Robert Kirkbride (design director, Studiolo), Joanna Merwood (doctoral dissertation, Princeton University), Michel Moussette (Ph.D. at the Université de Montréal), Juhani Pallasmaa (architect, Finland, emeritus Washington University in St. Louis), Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University), David Theodore (McGill University), and Dorian Yurchuk (architect, New York City).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Lewis Carroll, A Man out of Joint: The Anonymous Architect Of Euclid's Retreat
Caroline Dionne	1	(24)
2 The Breath on the Mirror: Notes on Ruskin's Theory of the Grotesque
Mark Dorrian	25	(24)
3 Alberti at Sea
Michael Emerson	49	(34)
4 The Rediscovery of the Hinterland
Marc Glaudemans	83	(20)
5 The Colosseum: The Cosmic Geometry of a Spectaculum
George L. Hersey	103	(24)
6 On the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the Architecture of Memory
Robert Kirkbride	127	(50)
7 Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Modern Symbolism in the Writing of William Richard Lethaby
Joanna Merwood	177	(20)
8 Gordon Matta-Clark's Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange
Michel Moussette	197	(14)
9 Geometry of Terror: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Juhani Pallasmaa	211	(34)
10 The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli
Alberto Pérez-Gómez	245	(42)
11 Simplex Sigillum Veri: The Exemplary Life of an Architect
David Theodore	287	(26)
12 Ranelagh Gardens and the Recombinatory Utopia of Masquerade
Dorian Yurchuk	313	(26)
About the Authors	339