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Zusatztext 'The strengths of this book are in its multiplicity of views ... and as such will be of particular interest to art and architecture history scholars! students and practitioners alike. Its cross-disciplinary nature successfully extends the discussion to other fields.' - Journal of Architectural Education Informationen zum Autor Thomas Mical completed his doctorate on Niezschean thought in De Chirico's metaphysical paintings. He completed his professional architecture degree at Harvard! and he has worked as a designer in Tokyo and Chicago! and does work in architectural theory. He has taught and lectured on surrealism in the US! UK! Europe! and the Middle East. Currently he is the Presidential (Assistant) Professor of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma! where his is affiliate faculty in Film Studies! Art History and International Studies. Klappentext Surrealism and Architecture 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 place of surrealist thought in contemporary design methods and theories. This book represents the most current insights into the historical and contemporary relationships of surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. Of all the artistic modernism affecting the design of buildings and cities! only surrealism has remained unexplored! yet the surrealist critiques of rationalism! orthodoxy! and the spatial production of meaning have a place in the history of modernism. In the 20 essays! the role of the subconscious! the techniques of defamiliarization! aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects! interiors! cities and landscapes of the 20th century are revealed in the works of Breton! Dali! Aragon! Le Corbusier! Neimeyer! Kiefer! Hejduk! Tschumi! and others ranging across the history of modern art and architecture. The book contains a diversity of voices! methodologies! and insights to bring into sharp focus what is often suppressed in the histories of the modernist avant-garde. This comprehensive collection examines the theoretical! visual! and spatial practices of writers! artists! architects! and urbanists with particular emphasis on the critique of the everyday world-view! offering alternative models of subjectivity! artistic effect! and the production of meanings in the built world. With the renewed interest in the surrealistmovement! this timely collection of illustrated essays is the first to look at the architectural possibilities of this distinct modern artistic movement which was interdisciplinary and international.This book offers a model for a new approach to historically rigorous analysis of in Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. "Un Salon au Fond d'un Lac": The Domestic Spaces of Surrealism 3. Aragon's Armoire 4. "Home Poor Heart": The Architecture of Cornell's Desire 5. Matta's Lucid Landscap 6. Menace: Surrealist Interference of Space 7. Daphne's Legacy: Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Petrification in Spyros 8. The Ghost in the Machine 9. "The Gift of Time": Le Corbusier Reading Bataille 10. Introjection and Projection: Frederick Kiesler and his Dream-Machine 11. Invernizzi's Exquisite Corpse - The Villa Girasole 12. The Casa Malaparte: A Metaphysical Architecture 13. Modernist Urbanism and its Monsters 14. Surrealism and the Irrational Embellishment of Paris 15. Re-Enchanting the City: The Utopian Practices of the Paris Group of the Jill Fenton Surrealist Movement 16. Lan...
