Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat

ISBN-13: 9780415403238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 14 str.

Ruan Paul Xing; Xing Ruan

Opis

'Topophilia and Topophobia' offers timely reflections on the human habitat in the 20th century. The expression of topophilia and topophobia belong to our time, an ambivalence between the love and aversion for a place has been a recurrant paradox in human history.

Spis treści

Architectural Enclosure: A Prologue to Topophilia and Topophobia Xing Ruan and Paul Hogben  1. Topo-philia and -phobia Joseph Rykwert  2. Time, Space, and Architecture: Some Philosophical Musings Yi-fu Tuan  3. Topophilia/Topophobia: The Role of the Environment in the Formation of Identity Neil Leach  4. Heterotopias and Archipelagos: The Shape of Modern Topophobia Jean-Louis Cohen  5. Agreement and Decorum: Conversations within the Architecture of Louis Kahn Peter Kohane  6. The Character of a Building: Paul Cret’s Human Analogy, Louis Kahn and Yang Tingbao Xing Ruan   7. Potential Places, Places of Potentiality: Levitation and Suspension in Modern Italian Architecture Ross Jenner  8. Transparency in the Contemporary Australian House Harry Margalit  9. The Voyage and the House: Bernard Rudofsky’s Search for Place Alessandra Como  Chapter 10: Hot Springs, Geysers and Animated Matter Sarah Treadwell  11. Not Another Waikiki? Mobilizing Topophilia and Topophobia in Coastal Resort Areas Daniel O’Hare  12. Economy and Affect: People-Place Relationships and the Metropolis Peter Murphy 13. Epilogue: The Architectural Project as Dialogue Vittorio Gregotti 

O autorze

Xing Ruan is Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales and is the author of Allegorical Architecture (2006) and New China Architecture (2006). He has published on a wide range of topics concerning legible relations between humans and the built world in some of the world’s leading scholarly journals, as well as professional magazines in China and Australia.

Paul Hogben is a lecturer in architecture at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on promotional politics and the discourse of architecture over the twentieth century. This research has been published in Architectural Theory Review and Fabrications, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.