Architecture in the age of divided representation : the question of creativity in the shadow of production / Dalibor Vesely.
By: Vesely, Dalibor
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004Description: xviii, 506 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0262220679.Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- Philosophy | Architecture -- AestheticsDDC classification: 720.1 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 720.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00178476 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [464]-491) and index.
Modernity, freedom, and destiny -- The nature of communicative space -- The prespectival transformation of the medieval world -- The age of divided representation -- The foundations of modern architecture -- Creativity in the shadow of modern technology -- The rehabilitation of fragment -- Toward a poetics of architecture.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. viii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xvi)
- Introduction (p. 2)
- 1 Modernity, Freedom, and Destiny (p. 11)
- 2 The Nature of Communicative Space (p. 43)
- 3 The Perspectival Transformation of the Medieval World (p. 109)
- 4 The Age of Divided Representation (p. 175)
- 5 The Foundations of Modern Architecture (p. 229)
- 6 Creativity in the Shadow of Modern Technology (p. 281)
- 7 The Rehabilitation of Fragment (p. 317)
- 8 Toward a Poetics of Architecture (p. 355)
- Notes (p. 390)
- Works Cited (p. 464)
- Illustration Credits (p. 492)
- Index (p. 496)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Dalibor Vesely is a Director (Emeritus) of graduate studies in the department of architecture and member of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.