Paul Hogben / Xing Ruan (eds.)

Topophilia and Topophobia

Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat
Herausgeber: Hogben, Paul; Ruan, Xing

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Produktbeschreibung

Topophilia and Topophobia relates our love of a place and aversion to it to the human habitats of the twentieth century, presenting a comprehensive range of case studies and philosophical musings dealing with cities and architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780415403238
• ISBN-10: 0415403235
• Artikelnr.: 23818496

Autorenporträt

Xing Ruan is Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales and is the author of Allegorical Architecture (2006) and New China Architecture (2006). He has published on a wide range of topics concerning legible relations between humans and the built world in some of the world's leading scholarly journals, as well as professional magazines in China and Australia. Paul Hogben is a lecturer in architecture at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on promotional politics and the discourse of architecture over the twentieth century. This research has been published in Architectural Theory Review and Fabrications, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Architectural Enclosure: A Prologue to Topophilia and Topophobia Xing Ruan
and Paul Hogben 1. Topo-philia and -phobia Joseph Rykwert 2. Time, Space,
and Architecture: Some Philosophical Musings Yi-fu Tuan 3.
Topophilia/Topophobia: The Role of the Environment in the Formation of
Identity Neil Leach 4. Heterotopias and Archipelagos: The Shape of Modern
Topophobia Jean-Louis Cohen 5. Agreement and Decorum: Conversations within
the Architecture of Louis Kahn Peter Kohane 6. The Character of a Building:
Paul Cret's Human Analogy, Louis Kahn and Yang Tingbao Xing Ruan 7.
Potential Places, Places of Potentiality: Levitation and Suspension in
Modern Italian Architecture Ross Jenner 8. Transparency in the Contemporary
Australian House Harry Margalit 9. The Voyage and the House: Bernard
Rudofsky's Search for Place Alessandra Como Chapter 10: Hot Springs,
Geysers and Animated Matter Sarah Treadwell 11. Not Another Waikiki?
Mobilizing Topophilia and Topophobia in Coastal Resort Areas Daniel O'Hare
12. Economy and Affect: People-Place Relationships and the Metropolis
Peter Murphy 13. Epilogue: The Architectural Project as Dialogue Vittorio
Gregotti