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CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

Ed. Alberto Perez-Gomez and Stephen Parcell

Table of Contents Vols. 1-6

Chora 1

1. Chora: The space of Architectural Representation. Alberto Perez Gomez 1

2. The Measure of Expression : Physiognomy and Character in Legueu's "Nouvelle Methode" Jean-Francois Bedard 35

3. Michelangelo: The image of the human body, Artifice, and Architecture Helmut Klassen 57

4. Architecture as Site of Reception- Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin Donald Kunze 83

5. Fictional Cities Graham Livesey 109

6. Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms Indra Kagis McEwen 123

7. Space and Image in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalgia": Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema Juhani Pallasmaa 143

8. The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama Stephen Parcell 167

9. The Building of a Horizon Louise Pelletier 189

10. Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference Natalija Subotincic 217

Chora 2

1 Socrates in the Agora Gregory Paul Caicco 1

2 On the Use of Architecture: the Destination of Buildings Revisited Lily H Chi 17

3 Hermes' Laugh: Philibert de l'Orme's Imagery as a Case of Analogical Edification Jean-Pierre Chupin 37

4 The Angel and the Mirror: Reflections of the Architecture of the Amalgam Terrance Galvin 69

5 Lessons of a Dream Karsten Harries 91

6 Architecture as a Site of Reception. Part II: Sea-Food and Vampires Donald Kunze 109

7 Concrete Blonde: A probe into the negative Space where l\IIysteries are Created Joanna Merwood 135

8 Surrealist Paris: The Non-Perspectival Space of the Lived City Dagmar Motycka Weston 149

9 The Metaphoric Architecture of the Diorama Stephen Parcell 179

10 The Legend of the Golem Bram Ratner 217

11 Paradoxical Space in Literature, Film and Architecture: A dialogue with Alain Robbe­Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet/ Alberto Perez-Gomez 245

12 When the Old Mirror is not yet Polished, What Would You Say of it? Tracey Eve Winton 269

Chora 3

I Invention as a Celebration of Materials Myriam Blais I

2 Sounding the Path: Dwelling and Dreaming Ricardo L. Castro 25

3 Surface and Appearance in Guarino Guarini's SS. Sindone Chapel Janine Debanne 45

4 To See the World as a Limited Whole : Human and Divine Perspectives in the Works of Salomon de Caus Katja Grillner 79

5 Demas: The Human Body as a Tectonic Construct Maria Karvouni 103

6 Juan Bautista Villalpando's Divine Model in Architectural Theory Alberto Perez-Gomez 125

7 Fragmentation, Improvisation, and Urban Quality: A Heterotopian Motif in Siegfried Kracauer Henrik Reeh 157

8 Vitruvius, Nietzsche, and the Architecture of the Body Mark Rozahegy 179

9 A Grand Piano Filled with Sand Soren Thurell 201

10 Origins and Ornaments: Jean-Jacques Lequeu and the Poetics of the City in L' Architecture Civile Franca Trubiano 221

11 Architecture and the Vegetal Soul David Winterton 255

12 Domesticity and Diremption: Poetics of Space in the Work of Jana Sterbak Irena Zantovska Murray 281

13 Absent Bodies Writing Rooms Ellen Zweig 303

Chora 4

1 Lewis Carroll, A "'1an out of Joint: The Anonymous Architect Of Euclid's Retreat Caroline Dionne 1

2 The Breath on the Mirror: Notes on Ruskin's Theory of the Grotesq'ue Mark Dorrian 25

3 Alberti at Sea Michael Emerson 49

4 The Rediscovery of the Hinterlana Marc Glaudemans 83

5 The Colosseum: The Cosmic Geometry of a Spectaculum George L. Hersey 103

6 On the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the Architecture of Memory Robert Kirkbride 127

7 Architecture, Mysticism and IVJyth: Modern Symbolism in the Writing of William Richard Lethaby Joanna Merwood 177

8 Gordon Matta-Clark's Circling the Circle of the Caribbean Orange Michel Moussette 197

9 Geometry of Terror: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window Juhani Pa!!asmaa 211

10 The Glass Architecture of Fra Luca Pacioli Alberto Perez-Gomez 245

11 Simplex Sigillum Veri: The Exemplary Life of an Architect David Theodore 287

12 Ranelagh Gardens and the Recombinatory Utopia of Masquerade Dorian Yurchuk 313

Chora 5

1 Fugitives in Sight: Section and Horizon in Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica Manuela Antoniu 1

2 Roads and a Mountain, a Lake, and a Runway: Interpreting Infrastructure at Mae Hong Son, Thailand Barry Bell 21

3 Erudite Laughter: The Persiflage of Viel de Saint-Maux Ramla Benaissa 51

4 The Hybrid: Labrouste's Paestum Martin Bressani 81

5 Landscapes of Memory: Philosophical and Experiential Parcours at the Musee des monumens fran<;ais Jennifer Carter 127

6 Looking around the Edge of the World: Contending with the Continuist Principle and the Plenarist Passion Edward 5. Casey 151

7 Horizons at the Drafting Table: Filarete and Steinberg Marco Frascari 179

8 Opening the Eye: "Seeing" as "Knowing" in Vastusastra (Indian Architectural Theory) According to the Treatise Manasara Jose Jacob 201

9 Projecting Utopia: The Refortification of Nicosia, 1567-70 Panos Leventis 227

10 Vitruvius and the French Landscape of Ruins: On Jean Gardet and Dominique Bertin's 1559 Annotations of De Architectura Daniel M. Millette 259

11 Ruskin and Viollet-Ie-Duc: Figures of Ruin and Restoration David Spurr 285

12 The Enigma of Pyramids: Measuring Salvation in Renaissance Rome Nick Temple 309

Chora 6

1 Lumen opacatum: Flesh in Fritz Lang's Metropolis Lawrence Bird 1

2 On Fire and the Origins of Architecture Lian Chang 25

3 The Sacred Stones of Saint-Denis Jason Crow 55

4 (Why No One Can Be) Against Sustainability: Traversing the Fantasy of Sustenance and the Topology of Desire Donald Kunze 75

5 Writing a Ufe from the Inside of a Drawing: Stendhal's Vie de Henry Brulard Mari Lending 91

6 Perceptual Unfolding in the Palace of Minos Rachel McCann 113

7 History as Storytelling in the Account of the Eleven Orders of Architecture According to Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz Maria Elisa Navarro Morales 143

8 Prato della Valle, Reconsidered Marc J. Neveu 159

9 Situating Pataphysical Machines: A History of Architectural Machinations Peter Olshavsky 181

10 The Tree, the Cross, and the Umbrella: Architecture and the Poetics of Sacrifice Santiago de Orduna 211

11 Utopian Knowledge: Eidetics, Education, and the Machine Jonathan Powers 229

12 Second Life: Identification, Parody, and Persona in William Burges's "Vellum Sketchbook" Nicholas Roquet 249

13 Perspective Jing: The Depth of Architectural Representation in a European-Chinese Garden Encounter Hui Zou 275