Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production

Name: Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production
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ISBN: 9780262720489

ISBN-10: 0262720485

ISBN-13: 9780262720489

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dalibor Vesely

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In this long-awaited work, Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers nothing less than an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture and, consequently, of the nature and cultural role of architecture through history. Vesely's argument, structured as a critical dialogue, discovers the first plausible anticipation of modernity in the formation of Renaissance perspective. Understanding this notion of perspective against the background of the medieval philosophy of light, he argues, leads to an understanding of architectural…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 524
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Modernity, Freedom, and Destiny



The Nature of Communicative Space



The Perspectival Transformation of the Medieval World



The Age of Divided Representation



The Foundations of Modern Architecture



Creativity in the Shadow of Modern Technology



The Rehabilitation of Fragment



Toward a Poetics of Architecture


Notes


Works Cited


Illustration Credits


Index