Constructions / John Rajchman.

Main entry:

Rajchman, John.

Title & Author:

Constructions / John Rajchman.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998.

Description:

143 pages ; 21 cm

Series:

Writing architecture

Notes:
Foreword by Paul Virilio.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Constructions -- Folding -- Lightness -- Abstraction -- Grounds -- Other geometries -- Fuuture cities -- The virtual house.
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Summary:

In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual and the formless, and possibilities for critical theory after utopia and transgression.

ISBN:

0262680963 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262680967 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Arkitekturfilosofi.

Added entries:

Wilcox, Jean, book designer, bookjacket designer.
Virilio, Paul
Writing architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191810
Call No.: ID NA680.R333; ID:97-B2824
Status: Available

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