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Chora 3 : intervals in the philosophy of architecture

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This third volume in the Chora series continues to explore diverse historical and critical issues in architecture. Attempting to discover architectural alternatives based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology, the contributors offer refreshing interdisciplinary explorations of architectural tradition. The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical "projects" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Pérez-Gómez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando; Janine Debanné offers a new perspective on Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin; Katja Grillner examines the early seventeenth-century writings of Salomon de Caus and his built work in Heidelberg; David Winterton reflects on Charles-François Viel's "Letters"; Franca Trubiano looks at Jean-Jacques Lequeu's controversial Civil Architecture; Henrik Reeh considers the work of Sigfried Kracauer, a disciple of Walter Benjamin; Irena Zantovská Murray reflects on work by artist Jana Sterbak; artist Ellen Zweig presents a textual project that demonstrates the charged poetic space created by film makers such as Antonioni and Hitchcock; and Swedish writer and architect Sören Thurell asks a riddle about architecture and its mimetic origins.

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Architecture : éthique et technologie / ethics and technology

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Textes de / texts by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Dalibor Vesely, Lukas K. Sosoe, Margaret A. Somerville, Peter Rose, Philippe Madec, Jean-Pierre Hardenne, Dan Hoffman, Jacques Rousseau, Robert Prost, Alain Findeli, Richard Henriquez, Lily Chi, Irena Latek.

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Architectural representation and the perspective hinge

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Writing from inside the discipline of architecture, rather than from the more common extrapolations from the history of painting and philosophy, Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier focus on the implications of the tool of perspective (and the hegemony of vision) for architectural representation. Their primary thesis is that tools of representation have a direct influence on the conceptual development of projects and generation of forms, and that there are alternatives to the reductive working methods of most contemporary practice. The book examines textual evidence across a broad historical period, concentrating on the relationship between drawing and architectural space in the period from the seventh century to the twentieth century. The book discusses such issues as optical correction and the nature of architectural drawing in selected treatises, revealing the complexity and potential contradiction inherent in any linear history of representation. The authors' ultimate aim is to probe the possibilities of the constructed world as a poetic translation, rather than prosaic transcription, of its representations.

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Chora 1: intervals in the philosophy of architecture

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This collection of essays includes pieces by Alberto Perez-Gomez, Jean-François Bédard, Helmut Klassen, Donald Kunze, Graham Livesay, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa, Stephen Parcell, Louise Pelletier, and Nadia Subotincic.

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Geoffrey Smedley - memory, measure, time, and numbers : a sculptural meditation on a drawing by Piero della Francesca

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Photographs by Robert Keziere.

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Piero en tête : sculptures de Geoffrey Smedley / Meditations on Piero: sculptures by Geoffrey Smedley

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Dans un traité sur la perspective écrit vers la fin de sa vie, Piero della Francesca tente d’établir les proportions mathématiques « idéales » de la tête humaine. Après des années de méditation créative à partir de ces dessins, Smedley a décidé d’en traduire concrètement le mystère en leur donnant une forme physique. Travaillant à la manière d’un architecte, il en a extrait la structure de ses sculptures. Sa pièce principale, The Numbers, est une méticuleuse représentation de plus d’un mètre de haut de la tête idéale de Piero della Francesca. In a treatise on perspective written towards the end of his life, Piero della Francesca attempted to determine the mathematically "ideal" proportions of the human head, basing his drawings on a belief in the cosmological significance of certain numbers and their geometrical relationships. After many years of creative meditation on these drawings, Smedley decided to translate their mystery into physical form, working the way an architect works to extract from them the structure of his sculptures. His principal piece, The Numbers, is a meticulous, four-foot high realization of Piero’s ideal head.

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Richard Henriquez et le Théâtre de la mémoire / Richard Henriquez : Memory Theatre

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Cette courte monographie et l'exposition itinérante qu'elle accompagne ont pour but de faire mieux connaître l'une des principales figures de l'architecture canadienne à l'heure actuelle. Ce livre contient les essais d'Alberto Pérez-Gomez et d'Howard Shubert ainsi que des photographies de Geoffrey James. / This short monograph and the travelling exhibition to which it is a guide introduce a major figure in Canadian architecture today. With essays by Alberto Pérez-Gomez and Howard Shubert, and photographs by Geoffrey James.