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Chora 4 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
ISBN: 9780773570801
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: Architecture;

Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum; through early Renaissance subjects, such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture; through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from seventeenth-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the spatial poetics of architecture by invoking other artistic disciplines.

Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.