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Chora 5: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
ISBN: 9780773560383
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals;

Architecture is at a crossroads - to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires determining how to affirm its relevancy within a globalized and technological culture. In a world where the supposed alternatives to the rationalist and functionalist building practices of modernity are often no more than empty formalism or extrapolation of deconstructivist positions into architecture, Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture seeks new possibilities.

Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.Alberto Pérez-Gómez is the author of Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics, co-editor of the Chora series, and Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor and director, post-professional graduate program, architecture, McGill University.