The rule and the model : on the theory of architecture and urbanism / Françoise Choay ; edited by Denise Bratton.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiv, 500 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262032260
- 9780262032261
- Règle et le modèle. English
- 720.1
- NA2500. C4713 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-484) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Choice of Words -- Texts as Realizers -- The De Re Aedificatoria, Inaugural text -- The Communal Edicts and the Fate of Their Argumentation -- The Pseudo-Treatises of the Renaissance and the Classical Age -- True and False Utopias -- The Utopia of Thomas More, Inaugural Text -- After Utopia -- From Theleme to Clarens -- From the Nova Atlantis to Contemporary Futurology -- Rhetorical Utopias -- Texts as Commentators -- The Objectification of Urban Space -- Commentaries for and Against the City -- The Architecture of the De Re Aedificatoria -- A Theory of Edification -- The Beautiful and Its Antinomies -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Or Supra-structural Borrowing -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Narratives and Histories in the De Re Aedificatoria -- The Architect-Hero -- Model Space and Spatial Model: A Phenomenological Approach -- Portrait Space and Model Space -- A Universalizable Device -- Model and Eternity -- The Pharmakon -- The Mirror Stage and the Utopian Stage -- The Mythic Construction -- More and Plato -- More and the Problematics of the Renaissance -- The Fate of the Architectural Treatises -- The First Generation -- The Vitruvianizing Regression -- Two Exceptions: The Treatises of Perrault and Scamozzi -- The Resistance of the Utopian Figure -- The Reductive Utopia of Morelly -- The Canonic Utopia: Sinapia and Hyperspatialization -- Science and Utopia Versus the Architectural Treatise: The Fragmented Treatise of Patte -- Pre-Urbanism -- The Teoria as Paradigm -- Scientific and Scientific Discourse -- Medicalization and Utopia -- The Dominance of the Morean Figure: The Pseudo-Albertian Traits -- The Work of the I of the Trattatisto -- Other Theories: From Sitte to Alexander -- Scientific Discourse: Simulations and Realities -- The Predominance of the Signs of Utopia -- The Pseudo-Albertian Traits -- Variations on the I of the Trattatisto -- Ouverture: From Words to Things -- Analysis of the Construction of the De Re Aedificatoria -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Corpus of Instaurational Texts -- References Beyond The Corpus -- Index of Names -- Index of Ideas.
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