| Constructions Contributor(s): Rajchman, John (Author), Virilio, Paul (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0262680963 ISBN-13: 9780262680967 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Art | Criticism & Theory - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning |
| Dewey: 724.6 |
| LCCN: 97035756 |
| Series: Writing Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.42" W x 7.94" (0.38 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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| Publisher Description: In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help construct a new space of connections, to build a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression. |
Contributor Bio(s): Virilio, Paul: - Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e). |