The Place of Silence: Architecture / Media / Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781350294509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str.

Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Ed;Dr Christos Kakalis (Newcastle Universit

Opis

The Place of Silence examines the poetics and politics of silence in architecture. Silence and quietness are terms often used by designers and critics to describe buildings, but the terms carry complex and varied meanings which demand interpretation if the power of silence in architecture is to be fully understood. From the buildings of John Hejduk to auditory landscapes and the 'loss of silence' in the contemporary urban world, the book explores questions of sound and atmosphere through the lens of architecture and place. Examining the diverse practices, politics and cultural meanings of silent places and buildings in historical and contemporary contexts, the case studies in this book connect a number of themes - from the creation of atmospheric spaces to ideas of attunement and mood in architecture - making The Place of Silence the key resource to understanding this often-overlooked aspect of architecture and architectural design.

Spis treści

Introduction, Mark Dorrian (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) and Christos Kakalis (Newcastle University, UK) Mediating Silence 1. ‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk's Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism, Mark Dorrian (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) 2. Textures of Silence in Claire Denis's Beau Travail, Hannah Paveck (Kings College London, UK) 3. Listening to Visaginas: on the Rescaling of Silences and Sounds in a Former Soviet Nuclear Town, Benjamin Cope (European Humanities University, Lithuania) 4. Urban Silence and Informational Noise: a Study of Athens’s Invisible Structures, Aikaterini Antonopoulou (University of Liverpool, UK) 5. The Silent Present: the Contemporary Atmosphere of Architectural Historiography, Amy Kulper (RISD, USA) Material Silences 6. Between the Lines, Manuela Antoniu (Independent Scholar, Japan) 7. The Silence of Michelangelo’s Hammer, Jonathan Foote (Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark) 8. Making Silence: Modes of Emptiness in Iberian Art and Architecture, Ross Jenner (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 9. On Becoming Petrified: the Erotic Gaze in Architectural Conception, Carolina Dayer (Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark) Practising Silence 10. Silence, Paradox and Religious Topography, Christos Kakalis (Newcastle University, UK) 11. Silences Generating Space, Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul (AUT University, New Zealand) and Carl Mika (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 12. Silence in the Middle Ground: Aesthetic Immersion in the Geologic, Tiago Torres-Campos (University of Edinburgh, UK) 13. John Hejduk and Samuel Beckett: Going On, in Silence and Lateness, Jason O'Shaughnessy (University College Cork, Ireland) Silence and the Senses 14. Quiet Places – Silent Space: Towards a Phenomenology of Silence, Gernot Böhme (Institut für Praxis der Philosophie, Germany) 15. Silence Please! A Brief History of Silence at the Theatre, Louise Pelletier (UQÀM, Canada) 16. Vessels of Place: Auditory Landscapes, Cross-Cultural Echoes in South-West Victoria, Paul Carter (RMIT University, Australia) 17. Attunement and Silence, Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University, Canada) Bibliography Index