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Architecture in words : theatre, language and the sensuous space of architecture / Louise Pelletier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 241 pISBN:
  • 0415394708 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 0415394716 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 725.82209033 22
Contents:
Pt. 1. Character and expression : staging an architectural theory -- 1. Architecture as an expressive language -- 2. Character theory in theatrical staging -- 3. Rules of expression and the paradox of acting -- Pt. 2. Play-acting and the culture of entertainment : architecture as theatre -- 4. Theatre as the locus of public and social expression -- 5. Theatre architecture and the role of the proscenium arch -- Pt. 3. Language and personal imagination : an architecture for the senses -- 6. Taste, talent, and genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- 7. Newtonian empirical sciences and the order of nature -- 8. Empirical philosophy and the nature of sensations -- Pt. 4. Plotting an architectural program : the space of desire -- 9. Staging an architecture in words -- 10. The narrative space of desire -- Conclusion : the temporality of human experience.
Review: "Architecture in Words explores the role of architecture as an expressive language through the transforming notion of character theory and looks at the theatre as a model for creating sensuous spaces in architecture."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. 1. Character and expression : staging an architectural theory -- 1. Architecture as an expressive language -- 2. Character theory in theatrical staging -- 3. Rules of expression and the paradox of acting -- Pt. 2. Play-acting and the culture of entertainment : architecture as theatre -- 4. Theatre as the locus of public and social expression -- 5. Theatre architecture and the role of the proscenium arch -- Pt. 3. Language and personal imagination : an architecture for the senses -- 6. Taste, talent, and genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- 7. Newtonian empirical sciences and the order of nature -- 8. Empirical philosophy and the nature of sensations -- Pt. 4. Plotting an architectural program : the space of desire -- 9. Staging an architecture in words -- 10. The narrative space of desire -- Conclusion : the temporality of human experience.

"Architecture in Words explores the role of architecture as an expressive language through the transforming notion of character theory and looks at the theatre as a model for creating sensuous spaces in architecture."--BOOK JACKET.

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