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Chora 5 : Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

Alberto Pérez-Gomez,
Stephen Parcell

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The fifth volume in this acclaimed series on the history and philosophy of architecture crosses a wide geographical and temporal range, moving from Greco-Roman antiquity to tenth-century India to contemporary Thailand and New York. The inter-disciplinary essays share a common theme in their reflections on the meaning of 'place' and 'place-making' as a richer alternative to the conceptual abstraction of universal ‘space.’

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Contents
Page 10-11

Foreword
Page 12-15

1 Fugitives in Sight: Section and Horizon in Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Page 16-35

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2 Roads and a Mountain, a Lake, and a Runway: Interpreting Infrastructure at Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Page 36-65

3 Erudite Laughter: The Persiflage of Viel de Saint-Maux
Page 66-95

4 The Hybrid: Labrouste’s Paestum
Page 96-141

5 Landscapes of Memory: Philosophical and Experiential Parcours at the Musée des monumens français
Page 142-165

6 Looking around the Edge of the World: Contending with the Continuist Principle and the Plenarist Passion
Page 166-193

7 Horizons at the Drafting Table: Filarete and Steinberg
Page 194-215

8 Opening the Eye: “Seeing” as “Knowing” in Vastusastra (Indian Architectural Theory) According to the Treatise Manasara
Page 216-241

9 Projecting Utopia: The Refortification of Nicosia, 1567–70
Page 242-273

10 Vitruvius and the French Landscape of Ruins: On Jean Gardet and Dominique Bertin’s 1559 Annotations of De Architectura
Page 274-299

11 Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc: Figures of Ruin and Restoration
Page 300-323

12 The Enigma of Pyramids: Measuring Salvation in Renaissance Rome
Page 324-353

About the Authors
Page 354-359

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Book Details

Title

Chora 5

Subtitle

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

Contributors

Alberto Pérez-Gomez,
Stephen Parcell

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Publication date

2007-01-01

Pages

xii, 344 p.

Print ISBN

9780773532601

eBook ISBN

9780773560383

LC Subjects

Architecture - Philosophy.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

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CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

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