Main entry:

Choay, Françoise.

Title & Author:

The rule and the model : on the theory of architecture and urbanism / Françoise Choay ; edited by Denise Bratton.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.

Description:

xiv, 500 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-484) and indexes.
Introduction: The Choice of Words -- Texts as Realizers. The De Re Aedificatoria, Inaugural text. The Communal Edicts and the Fate of Their Argumentation. The Pseudo-Treatises of the Renaissance and the Classical Age -- True and False Utopias. The Utopia of Thomas More, Inaugural Text. After Utopia. From Theleme to Clarens. From the Nova Atlantis to Contemporary Futurology. Rhetorical Utopias -- Texts as Commentators. The Objectification of Urban Space. Commentaries for and Against the City -- The Architecture of the De Re Aedificatoria -- A Theory of Edification -- The Beautiful and Its Antinomies -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Or Supra-structural Borrowing -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Narratives and Histories in the De Re Aedificatoria -- The Architect-Hero -- Model Space and Spatial Model: A Phenomenological Approach. Portrait Space and Model Space. A Universalizable Device. Model and Eternity. The Pharmakon -- The Mirror Stage and the Utopian Stage -- The Mythic Construction -- More and Plato -- More and the Problematics of the Renaissance -- The Fate of the Architectural Treatises. The First Generation. The Vitruvianizing Regression. Two Exceptions: The Treatises of Perrault and Scamozzi -- The Resistance of the Utopian Figure. The Reductive Utopia of Morelly. The Canonic Utopia: Sinapia and Hyperspatialization -- Science and Utopia Versus the Architectural Treatise: The Fragmented Treatise of Patte -- Pre-Urbanism -- The Teoria as Paradigm.
Scientific and Scientific Discourse. Medicalization and Utopia. The Dominance of the Morean Figure: The Pseudo-Albertian Traits. The Work of the I of the Trattatisto -- Other Theories: From Sitte to Alexander. Scientific Discourse: Simulations and Realities. The Predominance of the Signs of Utopia. The Pseudo-Albertian Traits. Variations on the I of the Trattatisto -- Ouverture: From Words to Things -- Analysis of the Construction of the De Re Aedificatoria -- The Corpus of Instaurational Texts -- References Beyond The Corpus.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

First published in France in 1980, this book was awarded the "Grand Prix de la Critique d'Architecture". It examines the author's hypothesis about the tradition of theorizing architecture and urbanism, demonstrating that this discourse has been organized by two formulations: the rule and the model.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262032260 (alk. paper)
9780262032261 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
City planning Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architekturtheorie
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Theorie
Architektur
Ästhetik
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Gebouwde omgeving.
Stadsplanning.
Utopieën.
Filosofische aspecten.
Architecture
City planning

Added entries:

Bratton, Denise.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189710
Call No.: ID NA2500.C4713; ID:95-B2622
Status: Available