This edited anthology examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and the theoretical and methodological concerns of surrealism informing past and future urban architecture. This book will offer a model for a new approach to historically rigorous analysis of interdisciplinary artistic practices. Thomas Mical, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Mary Ann Caws, Alice...
This edited anthology examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a histori...
This edited collection examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. It offers a model for a new approach to historically rigorous analysis of interdisciplinary artistic practice.
This edited collection examines a long overlooked topic: the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. It offers a mode...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In Doorknob, architecture and design scholar Thomas Mical explores a commonplace device that under closer scrutiny becomes a wonderful and slightly surreal mechanism of transformation. Inviting readers to look again at this everyday object, Mical shows how the doorknob can be understood as thing, as process, as transitional object, as the machine of arrival and escape, drawing upon examples from design, life, art, and mechanics.
Object Lessons is published in...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
