Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm

ISBN-13: 9780367077983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

HOLM

Opis

This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It should be of interest to anyone who is interested in how the environment we build is a reflection of our desire.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Preface on entitlement  1. Introduction to psychoanalysis [the unconscious]  2. Reading Giedion reading history through Lacan [symbolic, imaginary, & real space]  3. Brunelleschi and the visual field [desire & space]  4. Rossi and the field of the Other [planning or the unconscious]  5. Frampton and Scott Brown/Venturi [the social institution of the city or the death drive]  6. To conclude with climate change [discourse & the ethics of psychoanalysis]  Postscript: Subjective theory and practice [rooms+cities]  Bibliography  Figure Credits  Figure Notes  Index

O autorze

Lorens Holm teaches Architecture at the University of Dundee, where he runs a design research unit called rooms+cities. His published work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectivity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. He recently organised the international conference Architecture & Collective Life.