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Author:   John Shannon Hendrix ,  Lorens Eyan Holm
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781472456472

ISBN 10:   1472456475
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Historical Paradigms for Architecture and the Unconscious; 1: The Unconscious and Space: Venice and the Work of Albrecht Dürer; 2: Architecture and the Kantian Unconscious; 3: Gradations of Consciousness and Claude Bragdon's ‘Space-Conquest'; 4: Composing Form, Constructing the Unconscious: Empiriocriticism and Nikolai Ladovskii's ‘Psychoanalytical Method' of Architecture at VKhUTEMAS; II: The Unconscious as a Discourse for Architecture of the City; 5: Aldo Rossi and the Field of the Other; 6: Seducing God(s): Renaissance Ideal Cities as Mirror-images of Western Subjectivity; 7: Unconscious Places – Thomas Struth and the Architecture of the City; 8: X Marks the Spot that Will Have Been; III: Fantasies, Desires, Diagnoses; 9: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis in Architecture and Urban Design; 10: Architecture and the Unconscious: Fantasy, Construction, and the Dual Spatiality; 11: Shadows of Venice: Adrian Stokes, Aldo Rossi and ‘Interior Darkness'; IV: Case Study: Maison de Verre; 12: Projection: On Approaching the Maison de Verre; 13: Imaginative Enclave in the Maison de Verre; 14: Part-architecture: The Manifest and the Hidden in the Maison de Verre and the Large Glass (or Towards an Architectural Unconscious)

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John Hendrix is a professor at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Roger Williams University, US. He has authored and edited several books on architecture, philosophy and psychoanalysis, including Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, The Contradiction between Form and Function in Architecture, The Cultural Role of Architecture, Architecture as Cosmology, Architecture and Psychoanalysis, and Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures. Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee. He has taught at the Architectural Association, the Bartlett, the Mackintosh, and Washington University in St. Louis. His teaching/research focusses on the thought threads that link architecture, philosophy and psychoanalysis, in so far they concern cities, space and machines. Publications include Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: architecture, space and the construction of subjectivity (Routledge 2010). His papers have appeared in The Journal of Architecture, Perspecta, Critical Quarterly, Architecture Theory Review, and Assemblage.

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