Contents Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto Pérez-Gómez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouvelle Méthode of Jean-Jacques Lequeu - Jean-Franēois Bédard - Michelangelo: The Image of the Human Body, Artifice, and Architecture - Helmut Klassen - Architecture as Site of Reception - Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin - Donald Kunze - Fictional Cities - Graham Livesey - Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms - Indra Kagis McEwen - Space and Image in Andrey Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia": Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema - Juhani Pallasmaa - The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama - Stephen Parcell - The Building of a Horizon - Louise Pelletier - Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference - Natalija Subotincic. The essays in this collection explore architectural form and content in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices.
Chora - the space of architectural representation, Alberto Perez-Gomez;
the measure of expression - physiognomy and character in the "nouvelle
methode" of Jean-Jacques Leque, Jean-Francois Bedard; Michelangelo - the
image of the human body, artifice, and architecture, Helmut Klassen;
architecture as site of reception, Part 1 - cuisine, frontality, and the
infra-thin, Donald Kunze; fictional cities, Graham Livesey; instrumentality
and the organic assistance of looms, Indra Kagis McEwen; space and image in
Andrey Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia" - notes on a phenomenology of architecture in
cinema, Juhani Pallasmaa; the momentary modern magic of the panorama, Stephen
Parcell; the building of a horizon, Louise Pelletier; anaesthetic induction -
an excursion into the world of visual indifference, Natalija Subotincic.
Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.
