Merleau-Ponty Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann

2019/04/30 2001

Merleau-Ponty. Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to Continue Reading

The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture. Between Imitation and Invention

2014/05/07 1627

Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being Continue Reading

No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral Architecture

2014/04/05 1920

Karandinou, Anastasia No Matter: Theories and Practices of the Ephemeral Architecture 2013, Ashgate How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design space? Why do architects traditionally design, draw and map the visual, as opposed to other types of Continue Reading

Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire

2014/03/01 1682

Haralambidou, Penelope Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire 2013, Ashgate While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp – one of the twentieth century’s most beguiling artists – the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising the blueprint of Continue Reading

The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

2014/03/01 1524

Cruz, Marcos The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture 2013, Ashgate Today’s architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, and is now giving light to an alternative […]Continue Reading

An Anthropology of Architecture

2014/02/27 7400

Buchli, Victor An Anthropology of Architecture 2013, Bloomsbury Abstract  Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space – Continue Reading