Architecture in the age of divided representation : the question of creativity in the shadow of production / Dalibor Vesely.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xviii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262220679
- 9780262220675
- 0262720485
- 9780262720489
- 720.1 22
- NA500 .V47 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-491) and index.
Ch. 1. Modernity, freedom, and destiny -- Ch. 2. The nature of communicative space -- Ch. 3. The perspectival transformation of the medieval world -- Ch. 4. The age of divided representation -- Ch. 5. The foundations of modern architecture -- Ch. 6. Creativity in the shadow of modern technology -- Ch. 7. The rehabilitation of fragment -- Ch. 8. Toward a poetics of architecture.
"The central part of the book addresses the question of divided representation - the tension between the instrumental and the communicative roles of architecture - in the period of the baroque, when architectural thinking was seriously challenged by the emergence of modern science. Vesely sees the restoration of this communicative role of architecture as the key to the restoration of architecture as the topological and corporeal foundation of culture; what the book is to our literacy, he argues, architecture is to culture as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
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