Reading architecture : literary imagination and architectural experience /
Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of architectural practices and analysis when it co...
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reading architecture : literary imagination and architectural experience / Angeliki Sioli and Yoonchun Jung
- Section 1: Readings on (un)familiar places. Oran, the capital of boredom / Christian Parreno
- Discovering "Paris and its folds, Paris and its faces" / Angeliki Sioli
- Traces of Kristiania : a topographical reading of Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" / Mathilde Simonsen Dahl
- The architecture of "Another man's room" : unveiling stories of Seoul's apartments / Yoonchun Jung
- Section 2: Readings on architectural research. Fabrics of reality : art and architecture in László Krasznahorkai / Mari Lending
- How places speak : a plea for poetic receptivity in architectural research / Klaske Havik
- W.G. Sebald's "Austerlitz" : architecture as a bridge between the lost past and the present / Rumiko Handa
- Poetic imagination and the architecture of Poe / Lisa Landrum
- Montréal mythologies : narrating the city / Panos Leventis
- Section 3: readings on architectural design and pedagogy. The gesture of drawing in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The little prince" / Jason Crow
- Architecture drawn out of Bruno Schulz's poetic prose / Anca Matyiku
- Writing, model making and inventing in Paul Scheerbart's "The perpetual motion machine" / Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci
- Melvilla : an(other) underline reading / Marc J. Neveu
- Dreaming the city through unicorn skulls : reading Murakami with Agamben / Paul Holmquist. Section 4: Readings on contemporary architectural reality and practice. We build spaces with words : spatial agency, recognition, and narrative / Caroline Dionne
- The architectural turn in contemporary literature / David Spurr
- "Like this and also like that" : tactics from the tales of Nguyen Huy Thiep / Lily Chi
- Lost and longing : the sense of space in E.M. Forster's "The machine stops" / Susana Oliveira.
