Chambers for a Memory Palace

Name: Chambers for a Memory Palace
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780262621052

ISBN-10: 0262621053

ISBN-13: 9780262621052

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Donlyn Lyndon, Charles W. Moore

List price: $35.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $12.88

Buy new: $42.27

Marketplace

5 new & used from $4.56

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the chambers of the book with their own imaginations to join in the making of the Memory Palace proposed. The authors' informal, witty, and anecdotal style extends to the illustrations - the freehand travel sketches, line drawings, and watercolors of places they have remembered and enjoyed. Chambers for a Memory Palaceconsists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 8.50" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Axes that Reach / Paths that Wander



Orchards that Measure / Phasters that Temper



Platforms that Separate / Slopes that Join / Stairs that Climb and Pause



Borders that Control / Walls that Layer / Pockets that Offer Choice and Change



Openings that Frame / Portals that Bespeak



Roofs that Encompass / Canopies that Center



Markers that Command / Allies that Inhabit



Light that Plays / Shadow that Haunts / Shade that Lulls



Rooms that Define / Space that Leaks Up Into the Light



Types that Recur / Order that Comes and Goes



Shapes that Remind / Ornament that Transmits, Transforms, and Encodes



Gardens that Civilize



Water that Pools and Connects



Images that Motivate


Postscript: The Castillo de Gargonza


Index