Architecture and narrative : the formation of space and cultural meaning /
Psarra, Sophia,
Architecture and narrative : the formation of space and cultural meaning / Formation of space and cultural meaning Sophia Psarra. - xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The Parthenon and the Erechtheion - The Spatial Formation of Place, Politics and Myth -- Invisible Surface - Reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion -- 'The Book and the Labyrinth Were One and the Same' - Narrative and Architecture in Borges' Fictions -- (Th) Reading the Library - Spatial and Mathematical Journeys in Borges' Library of Babel -- Soane Through the Looking Glass - The House-Museum of Sir John Soane -- Victorian Knowledge - The Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow -- Contemporary Experience - The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow -- Tracing the Modern - Space, Display and Exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) -- A Comparative Synthesis -- The Formation of Space and Meaning. Part 1: -- 1. 2. Part 2: -- 3. 4. Part 3: -- 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 4: -- 9. 10.
0415343755 9780415343756 0415343763 9780415343763
2007034037
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture and society.
NA2760 / .P78 2009
720.1
Architecture and narrative : the formation of space and cultural meaning / Formation of space and cultural meaning Sophia Psarra. - xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The Parthenon and the Erechtheion - The Spatial Formation of Place, Politics and Myth -- Invisible Surface - Reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion -- 'The Book and the Labyrinth Were One and the Same' - Narrative and Architecture in Borges' Fictions -- (Th) Reading the Library - Spatial and Mathematical Journeys in Borges' Library of Babel -- Soane Through the Looking Glass - The House-Museum of Sir John Soane -- Victorian Knowledge - The Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow -- Contemporary Experience - The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow -- Tracing the Modern - Space, Display and Exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) -- A Comparative Synthesis -- The Formation of Space and Meaning. Part 1: -- 1. 2. Part 2: -- 3. 4. Part 3: -- 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 4: -- 9. 10.
0415343755 9780415343756 0415343763 9780415343763
2007034037
Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture and society.
NA2760 / .P78 2009
720.1