Title & Author:

Confabulations : storytelling in architecture / editors: Paul Emmons, Marcia F. Feuerstein, and Carolina Dayer ; associate editor: Luc Phinney.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2017

Description:

xxi, 226 pages, 53 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture of stories. Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé / Elaine Scarry -- The fabulous ox in Fengshui's fabrication of site / Qi Zhu -- The "uncharted tides:" a literary map of Saint Petersburg / Angeliki Sioli -- Macaronically speaking / Franco Pisani -- Stories of architecture. Building remember / David Leatherbarrow -- Object talks: confabulation of dwelling space in the texts of Kamo no Chōmei and Wajirō Kon / Izumi Kuroishi -- Suspended ceiling stories: navigating the cosmo-technologies of hospital ceilings / Federica Goffi -- Saul Steinberg's stories of dor / Andreea Mihalache -- The enlightening radiance of shadows / Hooman Koliji -- Architecture sub rosa: another tell-tale detail, with confabulations and digressions / Tracey Eve Winton -- Stories of theory. Language and architectural meaning / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- Walls of gender / Claudio Sgarbi -- Architecture's two bodies / Donald Kunze -- Camillo Sitte's winged snail: festina lente and escargot / Maria Feuerstein -- Strange tales of architectural evolution / Matthew Mindrup -- Dialetti architettonici: storytelling in the vernacular / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Miming a manner of architectural theory: Eudaimonia-a pantomime dream play / Lisa Landrum -- Practice of stories. Linear stories in Carlo Scarpa's architectural drawing / Carolina Dayer -- In medias res: Michelangelo's mural drawings at San Lorenzo / Jonathan Foote -- The function of fiction in fabrication: Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, the Italian confabulator / Louise Pelletier -- The laughing girls / Marc Neveu -- Mi punge vagezza, ovvero I misteri del mestiere / Rebecca Williamson -- Confabulatores nocturni / Brian Ambroziak and Andrew McLellan.

Summary:

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas, objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams, fantasies, and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker, architect, and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture. Bringing together a collection of 24 essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic, and cultural range. Beginning with an introduction framing the topic, the book is organized along a continuous thread structured around four key areas: architecture of stories, stories of architecture, stories of theory and practice of stories. Beautifully illustrated throughout and including a 64-page full colour section, Confabulations is an insightful investigation into architectural narratives.

ISBN:

9781138616622 paperback
1138616621 paperback

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Storytelling.
Architecture Philosophie.
Art de conter.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Emmons, Paul, editor.
Feuerstein, Marcia F., editor.
Dayer, Carolina, editor.
Phinney, Luc, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302746
Call No.: BIB 248877
Status: Available