| Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories Contributor(s): Borden, Iain (Editor), Rendell, Jane (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415231795 ISBN-13: 9780415231794 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices." Intersections" is the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and USA. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | Study & Teaching |
| Dewey: 720.1 |
| LCCN: 00059240 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.21" (1.60 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. An extended essay by the editors gives an in-depth introduction to the subject. Essays range from psychoanalysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the renaissance; to heteroptopia and Las Vegas. Contributors come from Europe and the USA, and include Iain Borden, Zeynep Celik, Sarah Chaplin, Beatriz Colomina, Darell Fields, Murray Fraser, Diane Ghirado, Joe Kerr, Clive Knights, Neil Leach, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Katherine Shonfield, Helen Thomas, Jeremy Till, Henry Urbach and Sarah Wigglesworth. |