Dalibor Vesely

The Latent World of Architecture

Selected Essays
Herausgeber: Stara, Alexandra; Carl, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). This collection presents the full range of his writing, drawing primarily from the history of art and architecture, as well as philosophy, theology, anthropology and ecology, and spanning from early antiquity to modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 215mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781032223261
• ISBN-10: 103222326X
• Artikelnr.: 64102588

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Stara is associate professor and reader in the history and theory of architecture at Kingston University London and a qualified architect in her native Greece, with Masters degrees from UCL and the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Oxford. She has been lecturing and publishing on art and architecture for the past three decades. Peter Carl taught graduate design and the graduate programme in the history and philosophy of architecture at the University of Cambridge with Dalibor Vesely for 30 years. He then established the PhD programme in architecture at London Metropolitan University, where he was professor until his retirement. He has lectured and taught internationally, publishing a body of work that interprets architectural and urban order in terms of phenomenological hermeneutics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword David Leatherbarrow Introduction Peter Carl
and Alexandra Stara 1. Architecture and the Limits of Modern Theory 2.
Architecture and the Question of Technology 3. The Architectonics of
Embodiment 4. The Relation of Religion and Science 5. Architecture and
Ethics in the Age of Fragmentation 6. The Hermeneutics of the Latent World
of Architecture 7. Architecture as a Humanistic Discipline 8. Elements of
Architecture and their Meaning 9. Mathesis Universalis in the Jesuit
Tradition 10. Surrealism and Latent World of Creativity 11. Czech New
Architecture and Cubism 12. Spatiality, Simulation and the Limits of the
Technological Imagination 13. Between Architecture and the City
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