Intersections Architectural Histories and Critical Theories

Name: Intersections Architectural Histories and Critical Theories
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ISBN: 9780415231794

ISBN-10: 0415231795

ISBN-13: 9780415231794

Edition: 2000

Authors: Iain Borden, Jane Rendell

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Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices.Intersectionsis the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and USA.

Book details

List price: $82.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Director of Architectural History and Theory; Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and judge for the President's Medals dissertation prizes, RIBA.

Jane Rendell is Lecturer in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Contributors


Sources of Illustrations


Introduction



From Chamber to Transformer: Epistemological Challenges and Tendencies in the Intersection of Architectural and Critical Theory




Theory as Objects of Study



Mimesis and the Dreamworld of Photography




Historical Errors and Black Tropes




Space House: the Psyche of Building




The Fragility of Structure, the Weight of Interpretation: Some Anomalies in the Life and Opinion of Eisenman and Derrid




Theorized Interpretation



A Fitting Fetish: the Interior of the Maison de Verre




Sublimation (el Pedregal)




Beyond the Empire of the Signs




Dark Lights, Contagious Space




Colonialism, Orientalism and the Canon




Women and Space in a Renaissance Italian City




Theorising Historical Methodology



Heterotopia Deserta: Las Vegas and Other Spaces




Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries in the Postmodern Metropolis




'Serpentine Allurements': Disorderly Bodies/Disorderly Spaces




The Construction of Identity: Virginia Woolf's City




Thick Time: Architecture and the Traces of Time




The Use of Fiction to Reinterpreting Architectural and Urban Space