TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelletier,Louise
TI  - Architecture in words: theatre, language and the sensuous space of architecture 
SN  - 0415394708 (hb : alk. paper)
U1  - 725.82209033 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Theater architecture
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Theater
KW  - Communication in architecture
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -