Walter Benjamin and Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hartoonian, Gevork

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from Walter Benjamin's ideas, the essays compiled in this book contribute to a critical understanding of contemporary architectural theories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135233747
• Artikelnr.: 42509799

Autorenporträt

Gevork Hartoonian is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra. He has practised architecture and taught at several universities in America, including Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. He is a member of the editorial group of Architectural Theory Review. His most recently published book is Crisis of the Object (Routledge, 2006). A Korean edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) is scheduled for 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Gevork Hartoonian 2. Manfredo Tafuri and the Age of
Historical Representation Andrew Leach 3. Looking Backward, Looking
Forward: Delightful Delays Gevork Hartoonian 4. Porosity at the Edge:
Working through Walter Benjamin's 'Naples' Andrew Benjamin 5. From
Baldwin's Paris to Benjamin's: The Architectonics of Race and Sexuality in
Giovanni's Room Magdalena J. Zaborowska 6. Architecture Under the Gaze of
Photography: Benjamin's Actuality and Consequences Nadir Lahiji 7. The
Techno-Aesthetics of Shock: Mario Sironi and the Exhibition of the Fascist
Revolution Libero Andreotti 8. Mimesis Neil Leach 9. Daniel Among the
Philosophers: The Jewish Museum, Berlin, and Architecture after Auschwitz
Terry Smith 10. Portbou and Two Grains of Wheat: In Remembrance of Walter
Benjamin Renee Tobe