Format:
1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350148161
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9781350213647
Content:
List of Illustrations Preface Foreword by Iain Borden Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Boredom as Architecture -- 1. A Component of Modernity -- Differential Distances 2. Fascination and Aversion 3. Søren Kierkegaard's Babylonian Tower 4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness 5. Blunting and Jading 6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures -- Circular Trajectories 7. A Unity of Disarray 8. Martin Heidegger's Urge to Be at Home 9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom 10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion 11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough -- Extended Thresholds 12. Potential Architectures 13. Andrew Benjamin's Antithesis to Boredom 14. Boredom in Domus 15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk 16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic 17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow -- Epilogue: Architectures of Boredom -- Bibliography Index
Content:
"Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is a by-product of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with modern architecture - one that has been little-explored in architectural history and theory. Boredom, Architecture and Spatial Experience explores that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern architectural experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history from the nineteenth century to the present, to explore how boredom became a normalized component of modernity, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of modern architecture, and how it serves to expose moments of crisis in the architecture of the twentieth century. Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to art theory and sociology to make its case. Combining archival material, literary sources and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers (including Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, and Jorge Silvetti), it reveals the complexity and importance of boredom in the experience and practice of architecture"--
Note:
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2017, under the title: Boredom as space : episodes of modern architecture
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350148130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350213647
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350148161
