The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9781032223254 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 328 str.

Alexandra Stara; Dalibor Vesely; Peter Carl

Opis

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). This collection presents the full range of his writing, drawing primarily from the history of art and architecture, as well as philosophy, theology, anthropology and ecology, and spanning from early antiquity to modernism.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Foreword | David Leatherbarrow  Introduction | Peter Carl and Alexandra Stara  1. Architecture and the Limits of Modern Theory  2. Architecture and the Question of Technology  3. The Architectonics of Embodiment  4. The Relation of Religion and Science  5. Architecture and Ethics in the Age of Fragmentation  6. The Hermeneutics of the Latent World of Architecture  7. Architecture as a Humanistic Discipline  8. Elements of Architecture and their Meaning  9. Mathesis Universalis in the Jesuit Tradition  10. Surrealism and Latent World of Creativity  11. Czech New Architecture and Cubism  12. Spatiality, Simulation and the Limits of the Technological Imagination  13. Between Architecture and the City  Illustration Credits  Index