Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138567436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Henriette Steiner; Maximilian Sternberg

Opis

This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and scholars of urbanism with backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. The book addresses architecture’s relationship with the city in a wide range of historical and contemporary contexts.

Recenzje

’For many years now phenomenology has influenced both the theory and the practice of architecture, challenging a still dominant preoccupation with technological innovation and aesthetic uniqueness. But the most pressing challenge facing architecture today, how it is to meet its social and environmental responsibility, has received insufficient attention. Focusing on the city, the present collection of chapters addresses that deficit, where the high quality of the contributions makes this also a tribute to the Cambridge Department of Architecture, with which all the authors have some connection.’ Karsten Harries, Yale University, USA

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg. Part I Urban Order and the Lived City: Convivimus ergo sumus, Peter Carl; Squaring the city: between Roman and Rabbinic urban geometry, Gil P. Klein; Medieval moderns? Cistercians and the city, Maximilian Sternberg; The proximity of difference and the three cities of Copenhagen, Henriette Steiner. Part II Culture and the Natural World: Atmospheric conditions, David Leatherbarrow; Art Nouveau gardens of the mind: bell jars, hothouses, and winter gardens - preserving immanent natures, Amy Catania Kulper; Burning the grove: from the celestial garden to the picturesque landscape in Baroque England, Robert Ferguson; The garden and the city: fragmented dreams of totality, Mari Hvattum. Part III From Fragment to City: Between architecture and the city, Dalibor Vesely; Early debates in modern architectural education: between instrumentality and historical phronesis, Alberto Pérez-Gómez; Gothic of the Murdered God: from the crystal creed to the spirit of abstraction in modern German architecture, Gabriele Bryant; Corporeal spatiality and the restorative fragment in early twentieth-century art and architecture, Dagmar Motycka Weston. Part IV Urban Discontinuities: Agon in urban conflict: some possibilities, Wendy Pullan; A fragment in the city: the Behind the Iron Gate housing estate, Gabriela Åšwitek; The phenomenology of food, Carolyn Steel; Changing places: navigating urbanity in the global South, Matthew Barac. Index.

O autorze

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor in the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and Maximilian Sternberg is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, UK.