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How Architecture Got Its Hump
Author | : Roger Connah |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2001-04-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 026226532X |
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Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture. In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural hallucinations or alibis for revisions of history. Or, are they a means for widening the site of architecture? Connah shows how these disciplines have not only contributed to new developments in architectural theory and practice, but have begun to insinuate new possibilities of space. Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations. Taking interference a step further, Connah also considers the implications of philosophical incongruity and architectural unrest. He asks how architecture loses its head, transcends the dead language it now entraps, and houses meanings it wants to contest. Hardly bleak questions, suggests Connah, for they point to ways for architecture to rescue itself.
Architecture and Science Fiction Film
Author | : David T. Fortin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781351957465 |
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The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.
The Architects Journal
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047828127 |
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Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062120509 |
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Architectural Publications Index
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015048294444 |
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Progressive Architecture
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Architectural drawing |
ISBN | : UOM:39015007178539 |
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The British National Bibliography
Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1600 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : UOM:39015079755644 |
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Out of Ground Zero
Author | : Joan Ockman |
Publsiher | : Prestel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015051831041 |
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The events that took place in New York on 11 September 2001 are the background for this series of essays exploring the response of different cities at different times to natural or man-made disaster. Case studies include the earthquake that shook Lisbon in 1755 and the bombing of Hiroshima.