UID:
almafu_9961152596002883
Format:
1 online resource (235 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-315-40289-0
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1-315-40290-4
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1-315-40288-2
Content:
Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of architectural practices and analysis when it comes to academic research and educational projects? Why trust authors and writers instead of sociologists or scientists when it comes to planning for the future of cities? This book builds on the existing interdisciplinary bibliography on architecture and literature, but prioritizes literature's capacity to talk about the lived experience of place and the premise that literary language can often express the inexpressible. It sheds light on the importance of a literary instead of a pictorial imagination for architects and it looks into four contemporary architectural subjects through a wide variety of literary works. Drawing on novels that engage cities from around the world, thebook reveals aspects of urban space to which other means of architectural representation are blind. Whether through novels that employ historical buildings or sites interpreted through specific literary methods, it suggests a range of methodologies for contemporary architectural academic research. By exploring the power of narrative language in conveying the experience of lived space, it discusses its potential for architectural design and pedagogy. Questioning the massive architectural production of today's globalized capital-driven world, it turns to literature for ways to understand, resist or suggest alternative paths for architectural practice. Despite literature's fictional character, the essays of this volume reveal true dimensions of and for places beyond their historical, social and political reality; dimensions of utmost importance for architects, urban planners, historians and theoreticians nowadays.
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction: Reading architecture : literary imagination and architectural experience /
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Section 1: Readings on (un)familiar places. Oran, the capital of boredom /
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Discovering "Paris and its folds, Paris and its faces" /
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Traces of Kristiania : a topographical reading of Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" /
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The architecture of "Another man's room" : unveiling stories of Seoul's apartments /
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Section 2: Readings on architectural research. Fabrics of reality : art and architecture in László Krasznahorkai /
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How places speak : a plea for poetic receptivity in architectural research /
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W.G. Sebald's "Austerlitz" : architecture as a bridge between the lost past and the present /
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Poetic imagination and the architecture of Poe /
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Montréal mythologies : narrating the city /
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Section 3: readings on architectural design and pedagogy. The gesture of drawing in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The little prince" /
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Architecture drawn out of Bruno Schulz's poetic prose /
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Writing, model making and inventing in Paul Scheerbart's "The perpetual motion machine" /
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Melvilla : an(other) underline reading /
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Dreaming the city through unicorn skulls : reading Murakami with Agamben /
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The architectural turn in contemporary literature /
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"Like this and also like that" : tactics from the tales of Nguyen Huy Thiep /
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Lost and longing : the sense of space in E.M. Forster's "The machine stops" /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-22426-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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