The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical "projects" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Perez-Gomez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanne offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-Francois Viel's "Letters"; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena dantovska Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Soren Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins. The essays in this volume demonstrate a reconciliatory architecture that respects cultural differences, acknowledges the globalization of technological culture, and points to a referent other than itself.
Recenzijos
"CHORA 3 is an unusually stimulating collection to which I will return over and over. This is an important volume to historians and theorists of architecture and anyone interested in issues of space, body, and architectural meaning. I strongly recommend it." Karsten Harries, Department of Philosophy, Yale University
Preface ix Invention as a Celebration of Materials 1(24) Myriam Blais Sounding the Path: Dwelling and Dreaming 25(20) Ricardo L. Castro Surface and Appearance in Guarino Guarinis SS. Sindone Chapel 45(34) Janine Debanne To See the World as a Limited Whole: Human and Divine Perspectives in the Works of Salomon de Caus 79(24) Katja Grillner Demas: The Human Body as a Tectonic Construct 103(22) Maria Karvouni Juan Bautista Villalpandos Divine Model in Architectural Theory 125(32) Alberto Perez-Gomez Fragmentation, Improvisation, and Urban Quality: A Heterotopian Motif in Siegfried Kracauer 157(22) Henrik Reeh Vitruvius, Nietzsche, and the Architecture of the Body 179(22) Mark Rozahegy A Grand Piano Filled with Sand 201(20) Soren Thurell Origins and Ornaments: Jean-Jacques Lequeu and the Poetics of the City in LArchitecture Civile 221(34) Franca Trubiano Architecture and the Vegetal Soul 255(26) David Winterton Domesticity and Diremption: Poetics of Space in the Work of Jana Sterbak 281(22) Irena Zantovska Murray Absent Bodies Writing Rooms 303(32) Ellen Zweig About the Authors 335
Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Chair of the History of Architecture at McGill University.
Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University and author of Four Historical Definitions of Architecture. Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.
