Chora Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Alberto Pérez-Gomez and Stephen Parcell Klappentext Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. Zusammenfassung Presents the history and philosophy of architecture moving from Greco-Roman antiquity to tenth-century India to contemporary Thailand and New York. This title features inter-disciplinary essays which share a common theme in their reflections on the meaning of place and place-making as an alternative to conceptual abstraction of universal space.

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• Authors: Stephen Parcell, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Alberto Pérez-Gomez
• Assisted by: Stephen Parcell (Editor), Alberto Perez-Gomez (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgill queen's university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2007
• EAN: 9780773532625
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3262-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture; Chora: Intervals in the Philos; Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture; Chora: Intervals in the Philos
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture