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What is Architecture?
About this book
Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things. The essays collected here challenge, and help to define a view of architecture which ranges from the minimal domesticity of Diogenes' barrel, to the exuberant experiments of the contemporary avant-garde. There are essays by philosophers, architects and art historians, including Roger Scruton, Bernard Tschumi, Demetri Pophyrios, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo and David Goldblatt.
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Architecture GeneralTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Commentary: Andrew Ballantyne, The Nest and the Pillar of Fire
- 1 Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism Roger Scruton
- 2 The Architecture of Deceit Diane Ghirardo
- 3 Spatial Stories Michel de Certeau
- 4 The Dark Side of the Domus Neil Leach
- 5 The Metaphysics of Housework: Patricia Grubenās The Central Character Kathleen Anne McHugh
- 6 āHi Honey, Iām Homeā: Weary (Neurasthenic) Businessmen and the Formulation of a Serenely Modern Aesthetic Joyce Henri Robinson
- 7 From Techne to Tectonics Demetri Porphyrios
- 8 Bƶtticher, Semper and the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form Kenneth Frampton
- 9 The Dislocation of the Architectural Self David Goldblatt
- 10 The Pleasure of Architecture Bernard Tschumi
- Bibliography
- Index