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Architecture and narrative : the formation of space and cultural meaning / Sophia Psarra.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009Description: xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415343755
  • 9780415343756
  • 0415343763
  • 9780415343763
Other title:
  • Formation of space and cultural meaning
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2760 .P78 2009
Contents:
Part 1: -- Introduction -- 1. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion - The Spatial Formation of Place, Politics and Myth -- 2. Invisible Surface - Reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion -- Part 2: -- 3. 'The Book and the Labyrinth Were One and the Same' - Narrative and Architecture in Borges' Fictions -- 4. (Th) Reading the Library - Spatial and Mathematical Journeys in Borges' Library of Babel -- Part 3: -- 5. Soane Through the Looking Glass - The House-Museum of Sir John Soane -- 6. Victorian Knowledge - The Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow -- 7. Contemporary Experience - The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow -- 8. Tracing the Modern - Space, Display and Exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) -- Part 4: -- 9. A Comparative Synthesis -- 10. The Formation of Space and Meaning.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.1 PSA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A379021B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: -- Introduction -- 1. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion - The Spatial Formation of Place, Politics and Myth -- 2. Invisible Surface - Reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion -- Part 2: -- 3. 'The Book and the Labyrinth Were One and the Same' - Narrative and Architecture in Borges' Fictions -- 4. (Th) Reading the Library - Spatial and Mathematical Journeys in Borges' Library of Babel -- Part 3: -- 5. Soane Through the Looking Glass - The House-Museum of Sir John Soane -- 6. Victorian Knowledge - The Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow -- 7. Contemporary Experience - The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow -- 8. Tracing the Modern - Space, Display and Exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) -- Part 4: -- 9. A Comparative Synthesis -- 10. The Formation of Space and Meaning.

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