Welcome to the Hotel Architecture

Departing from conventional genres of architectural writing, Roger Connah presents an original and wry reflection on the fickle but exciting role that language, semantics, and philosophy have played this century in relation to architecture. Welcome to The Hotel Architecture is a five-part "anti-epic" poem on the culture of architecture - its tribes and inventions, the spectacular and vernacular, and the processes through which names and movements are secured, erased, forgotten, and manipulated.

About the author

Writer and filmmaker Roger Connah is Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm Royal School of Fine Arts.

Summary

A rollicking tour in the form of a long poem, and a tour de force in the form of a poeme a clef, through twentieth-century architecture at the end of millennium.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Connah, Roger (The Hotel Architecture) Connah
• Assisted by: Cynthia Davidson (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.1998
• EAN: 9780262531535
• ISBN: 978-0-262-53153-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 200 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Writing Architecture; Welcome to the Hotel Architecture; Writing Art; Writing Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture