Main entry:

Pelletier, Louise, 1963-

Title & Author:

Architecture in words : theatre, language and the sensuous space of architecture / Louise Pelletier.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234) and index.
Part 1. Character and expression: staging an architectural theory: Architecture as an expressive language -- Character theory in theatrical staging -- Rules of expression and the paradox of acting. -- Part 2. Play-acting and the culture of entertainment: architecture as theatre: Theatre as the locus of public and social expressin -- Theatre architecture and the role of the proscenium arch. -- Part 3. Language and personal imagination: an architecture for the senses: Taste talent, and genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- Newtonian empirical sciences and the order of nature -- Empirical philosophy and the nature of sensations. -- Part 4. Plotting an architectural program: the space of desire: Staging an architecture in words -- The narrative space of desire -- Conclusion: the temporality of human experience.

Summary:

"Architecture in Words explores the role of architecture as an expressive language through the transforming notion of character theory and looks at the theatre as a model for creating sensuous spaces in architecture."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0415394708 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415394703 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415394716 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415394710 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780203966884
0203966880

Subject:

Theater architecture Europe History 18th century.
Theater Europe History 18th century.
Communication in architecture.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture des théâtres Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Théâtre Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Communication en architecture.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Theater.
Theater architecture.
Theater Europe 18th century.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252683
Call No.: BIB 182401
Status: Available