Archeticture : ecstasies of space, time, and the human body / David Farrell Krell.

Main entry:

Krell, David Farrell.

Title & Author:

Archeticture : ecstasies of space, time, and the human body / David Farrell Krell.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.
Introduction: Architecture, spell it new? -- 1. Tic-talk: Space, time, and lovemaking in Plato's Timaeus -- 2. Ecstatic spatiality: Liberations of space in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger -- 3. Unhomelike places: Architectural sections of Heidegger and Freud -- 4. Unhomelike bodies: Corporeal space in Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, and Irigaray -- Appendix: A malady of chains: Husserl and Derrida on the origins and ends of geometry, with a note to the architects of the future.

Summary:

In this book, David Farrell Krell challenges contemporary and traditional theories of architecture with architecturespelling it new by design. The thesis of the book is that the heart of the word architecture, the Greek root tec-, can be traced back to an earlier and more pervasive root, tic-. The verb tiktein means "to love," "to engender," "to reproduce." In the course of Western history, however, that older root disappeared under the debris of discarded techniques, technologies, architectonics, and architectures, all of them insisting on technical mastery, technological power, and architectonic solidarity. Yet what would happen to the confidence we place in technique if we realized that its dominion is based on a kind of oblivion - an oblivion of the materials, places, situations, and human bodies that not even the mightiest technician can thoroughly dominate, but that he or she must love?

ISBN:

0791434095 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780791434093 (hc ; alk. paper)
0791434109 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791434109 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architektur
Philosophie
Körper
Ästhetik
Arquitetura (filosofia)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191588
Call No.: ID NA2500.K72; ID:97-B2560
Status: Available

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