Architecture and the burdens of linearity / Catherine Ingraham.

Main entry:

Ingraham, Catherine, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and the burdens of linearity / Catherine Ingraham.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998].
©1998.

Description:

xiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-188) and index.
1. Dividing the Land: Lines of Identity and Descent -- 2. What Is Proper to Architecture -- 3. The Burdens of Linearity: Donkey Urbanism -- 4. The Outline of the (Dead) Body -- 5. Two Laments for the Architectural Object -- Epilogue: Man, Woman, House, Sand.

Summary:

In this engaging discussion, Ingraham considers maps, architectural plans, the laws of geometry, systems of architectural knowledge, and mythologies of architectural origin in works by Le Corbusier, Vitruvius, Alberti, Tafuri, Derrida, Levi-Strauss, Shakespeare, Lacan, Deleuze, Rilke, and Stendhal. Entering the current complex debates about the connection between theory and practice in architecture, the author also addressed themes in psychoanalytic criticism, poststructural theory, and feminist criticism. Her examination thus moves beyond architecture and its literal structures to the notion of epistemological structure that architecture as a discipline and practice upholds and promotes.

ISBN:

0300071191 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300071191 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Mathematics.
Architecture Philosophie.
Bouwkunst.
Filosofische aspecten.
Architecture Histoire.

Added entries:

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197068
Call No.: ID NA2500.I53; ID:98-B294
Status: Available

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