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This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on ideas from beyond the architectural canon, contributors including Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow, Juhani Pallasmaa, Karsten Harries, Steven Holl, Indra Kagis McEwen, Paul Emmons, and Louise Pelletier offer new insights and perspectives on questions such as the following:

Given the recent fascination with all things digital and novel, what is the role of history and theory in contemporary architectural praxis?

Is authentic meaning possible in a technological environment that is so global and interconnected?

What is the nature and role of the architect in our shared modern world?

How can these questions inform a new model of architectural praxis?

Architecture's Appeal is a thought-provoking book which will inspire further scholarly inquiry and act as a basis for discussion in the wider field as well as graduate seminars in architectural theory and history.

　

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• List of figures(p. ix)
• Notes on contributors(p. xiv)
• Acknowledgements(p. xvii)
• Opening(p. 1)
• Part I Invoking the gods(p. 3)
• 1 The Reading Chamber(p. 5)
• 2 The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the death of architecture(p. 16)
• 3 Reading what is written between the lines: the esoteric dimension of Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow(p. 33)
• 4 On virtue and Thomas Jefferson(p. 47)
• Interlude A The Architect's Fall Santiago de Orduña(p. 61)
• Part II Worldmaking(p. 65)
• 5 Made in usage: architecture in Furetière's Dictionnaire universel(p. 67)
• 6 Beyond expression(p. 79)
• 7 On water and other fluids: a bloody account of urban circulation(p. 94)
• 8 Earth or world? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination(p. 106)
• Interlude B The door of theory(p. 121)
• Part III Flesh / Eros(p. 123)
• 9 Tough love: a study of the architecture of Pezo von Ellrichshausen(p. 125)
• 10 Flesh of stone: buildings, statues, entangled bodies(p. 138)
• 11 Genius as Eros(p. 150)
• 12 The tactile legacy of Alvar Aalto and its relevance to contemporary practice(p. 166)
• Interlude C Sigmund Freud or the dark forest room revisited(p. 181)
• Part IV Fusion of horizons(p. 193)
• 13 Voices of tranquillity: silence in art and architecture(p. 195)
• 14 An architectural creation myth borrowed from the phenomenology of music(p. 205)
• 15 Modus operandi of an architectus doli: architectural cunning in the comic plays of Plautus(p. 218)
• 16 Towards an ecology of the Palladian villa(p. 228)
• Interlude D Transformative power of architecture(p. 241)
• Part V After the crisis(p. 245)
• 17 Juan O'Gorman and the genesis and overcoming of functionalism in Mexican modern architecture(p. 247)
• 18 Architecture or acceleration: position as opposition(p. 262)
• 19 Building upon love in an age of innovation(p. 272)
• 20 Content and craft: what do we do when we do the history of architecture?(p. 283)
• Interlude E Two poems 2000-2011(p. 293)
• Index(p. 298)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Marc J. Neveu is Chair of the Department of Architecture at Woodbury University, Los Angeles, USA and the Executive Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education.
Negin Djavaherian is an independent scholar currently residing in Montral, Canada.