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This work explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions. The essays in this collection explore architectural form and concept in the hope of finding new and better alternatives to traditionally accepted practices.

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Author:   Alberto Pérez-Gómez ,  Stephen Parcell
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Volume:   Bk. 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9780773511934

ISBN 10:   0773511938
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 December 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chora - the space of architectural representation, Alberto Perez-Gomez; the measure of expression - physiognomy and character in the ""nouvelle methode"" of Jean-Jacques Leque, Jean-Francois Bedard; Michelangelo - the image of the human body, artifice, and architecture, Helmut Klassen; architecture as site of reception, Part 1 - cuisine, frontality, and the infra-thin, Donald Kunze; fictional cities, Graham Livesey; instrumentality and the organic assistance of looms, Indra Kagis McEwen; space and image in Andrey Tarkovsky's ""Nostalgia"" - notes on a phenomenology of architecture in cinema, Juhani Pallasmaa; the momentary modern magic of the panorama, Stephen Parcell; the building of a horizon, Louise Pelletier; anaesthetic induction - an excursion into the world of visual indifference, Natalija Subotincic."

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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.

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