Chora 7: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

by Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Stephen Parcell

Overview

For over twenty years, the Chora series has received international acclaim for its excellence in interdisciplinary research on architecture. The seven volumes of Chora have challenged readers to consider alternatives to conventional aesthetic and technological concepts. The seventy-eight authors and eighty-seven scholarly essays in the series have investigated profound cultural roots of architecture and revealed rich possibilities for architecture and its related disciplines. Chora 7, the final volume in the series, includes fifteen essays on architectural topics from around the world (France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Korea, and the United States) and from diverse cultures (antiquity, Renaissance Italy, early modern France, and the past hundred years). Thematically, they bring original approaches to human experience, theatre, architectural creation, and historical origins. Readers will also gain insights into theoretical and practical work by architects and artists such as Leon Battista Alberti, Peter Brook, Douglas Darden, Filarete, Andy Goldsworthy, Anselm Kiefer, Frederick Kiesler, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, and Peter Zumthor. Contributors to Chora 7 include Anne Bordeleau (University of Waterloo), Diana Cheng (Montreal), Negin Djavaherian (Montreal), Paul Emmons (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech), Paul Holmquist (McGill University), Ron Jelaco (McGill University), Yoonchun Jung (Kyoto University), Christos Kakalis (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), Lisa Landrum (University of Manitoba), Robert Nelson (Monash University), Marc J Neveu (Woodbury University), Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University), Angeliki Sioli (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou (National Technical University of Athens), and Stephen Wischer (North Dakota State University).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773547025
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	02/25/2016
Series:	CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture , #7
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Monumentally and Contemporaneity in the Work of Tarkovsky, Goldsworthy, and Zumthor Anne Bordeleau 1

2 The Public Boudoir of an Actress: The Petite Maison of Mademoiselle Dervieux Diana Cheng 21

3 Peter Brook's "Empty Space": Orghast at Persepolis Negin Djavaherian 47

4 Bodies, Books, and Buildings: Encountering the Renaissance Frontispiece Paul Emmons 69

5 "More Powerful than Love": Imagination and Language in the Oikéma of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Paul Holmquist 95

6 Adrien Auzout and the Origins of the Paris Observatory Ron Jelaco 117

7 Constructing Architectural History in the Joseon Industrial Exhibition of 1915 Yoonchun Jung 141

8 Silence and Communal Ritual in an Athonian Coenobitic Monastery Christos Kakalis 163

9 The Language of the Street: A Vocabulary of Communal Space Robert Nelson 189

10 The Laughing Girls Marc J Neveu 217

11 Filarete's Sforzinda: The Ideal City as a Poetic and Rhetorical Construction Alberto Pérez-Gómez 243

12 Is the Endless a House? Angeliki Sioli 263

13 The Juridical Character of Alberti's Mind Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou 285

14 The Architecture of Anselm Kiefer: La Ribaute and the Space of Dramatic Representation Stephen Wischer 303

15 Chora before Plato: Architecture, Drama, and Receptivity Lisa Landrum 323

About the Authors 359