Main entry:

Stacher, Susanne, author.

Title & Author:

Sublime visions : architecture in the Alps / Susanne Stacher ; translations of texts and quotations, Brian Dorsey [and three others].

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2018]
©2018

Description:

223 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 27 cm

Series:

Edition Angewandte : book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Notes:
Translation of: Sublime Visionen : Architektur in den Alpen.
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2016) under the title: Dreamland Alps : alpine Architektur im Prisma des Sublimen.
Also available in German and French versions.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and indexes.
The emergence of the Alpine sublime -- Crystal, crystallization -- Therapeutic landscape -- Contesting for the child -- Motion, exhilaration, and vertigo -- "Sublimation" of 30,000 beds.

Summary:

In the 18th century the Alps became the subject of a new type of contemplation of nature, which crystallized in the terms "sublime" and "exalted". Oscillating between fear and fascination, this sensual experience triggered an exciting borderline experience: travelers ventured to the mountain world full of longing, and projected quite different dreams onto the "wild nature" which had yet to be opened up. To what extent has the sublime character influenced architecture in the Alps from the beginning of tourism to today? Under this motto the author analyses Alpine architecture in the context of architectural history and provides a critical assessment of contemporary tourism. A book that inspires us to reflect on the future of building in the Alps and on our relationship with nature.

ISBN:

9783035614992 (paperback)
3035614997 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Alps Region History.
Hillside architecture Alps Region.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Architecture Alpes Histoire.
Architecture à flanc de coteau Alpes.
Nature (Esthétique)
Hillside architecture.
Architecture.
Alps Region.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Added entries:

Dorsey, Brian, translator.
Edition Die Angewandte, University Press.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304673
Call No.: BIB 250333
Status: External loan