Architecture, Animal, Human
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Architecture, Animal, Human

The Asymmetrical Condition

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Architecture, Animal, Human

The Asymmetrical Condition

About this book

This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other. These convergences are fascinating and complex, offering new insights into architecture and its role. Establishing architecture as a product of the ascendancy of the position of human life, the author shows here that while architecture is dependent on life forces for its existence, at the same time it must be, at some level, indifferent to the life within it. Life, for its part, privileges itself above all else, and seeks to continuously expand its field of expression. This, then, is the asymmetrical condition, and to understand it is to gain important new theoretical perspectives into the nature of architecture.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780415701068
eBook ISBN
9781135993382

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. 1: PARTITIONING THE ORTHOREDIC WHOLE
  7. 2: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
  8. 3: LIFE (BEFORE)
  9. 4: ROST-ANIMAL LIFE
  10. 5: AFTER
  11. 6: WAYS OF LIFE
  12. 7: HYENA: TOTEM ANIMAL OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
  13. 8: BIRDS (FROM ABOVE)
  14. 9: BIRDS (FROM BELOW)
  15. 10: SPACE: THE ANIMAL-FIELD
  16. 11: PRAYING MANTIS: TOTEM ANIMAL OF THE THIRTIES
  17. 12: MIMICRY
  18. 13: VERTICAL, STANDING UPRIGHT
  19. 14: FRAMING
  20. 15: LASCAUX: TOTEM MILIEU OF THE SIXTIES
  21. 16: STOCK EXCHANGE: STANDING UPRIGHT, IDLE
  22. 17: THE CITY: HORIZONTAL, UPRIGHT, WORKING
  23. 18: ENGINEERING
  24. 19: PROCESSING
  25. NOTES