Main entry:

Toy, Maggie.

Title & Author:

Ecstatic architecture : the surprising link ; from a debate of the Academy International Forum at the Royal Academy / Charles Jencks.

Publication:

Chichester : Wiley, 1998.

Description:

176 pages ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Ecstatic Architecture -- The Surprising Link / Charles Jencks -- Ecstatic Architecture / Charles Jencks -- Defining Ecstasy / Charles Jencks -- Forms of Ecstasy -- Part I / Charles Jencks -- Ecstasy and Nature -- Ecstasy and Ritualistic Architecture -- Body in Architecture -- Face and Mood -- Dissolving Dome -- The Evolution of an Idea -- Ecstatic Passion -- Rococo -- Eruption of Voluptuous Nature -- Art Nouveau -- Wright and Abstract Representation -- Ekstasis: Dematerialism and Movement / Paolo Portoghesi -- Ecstasy / Neil Leach -- Ecstatic Space: The Royal Academy of Arts Debate -- Ecstacity / Nigel Coates -- Body and Ecstasy: Interview with Nigel Coates -- Dissolving, Floating, Exploding Architecture of Coop Himmelb(l)au / Charles Jencks -- Alsop & Stormer / Charles Jencks -- Stealthily Fluid (Moving) Spaces / Odile Decq -- Ron Arad, Ecstatic Architecture Symposium -- Forms of Ecstasy -- Part II / Charles Jencks -- Bruce Goff and Geometrism -- Fluidity and Bliss -- Unveiling Mystery -- Hans Hollein -- Mechanomorphic Eroticism -- Shin Takamatsu -- Crossing Boundaries -- Gehry and Moss -- Ecstasy of the Architectural Idea -- Eisenman and Libeskind -- Hardcore E -- The Fetishistic Sublime -- Breathless -- The Flying Cantilever -- Cyberspace / Maggie Toy -- Bilbaoism -- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sensuous Knowledge / Charles Jencks.
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Summary:

"Today there is a broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - partly motivated by pure architectural ideas pushed to their limits and a shift from functional concerns to sensual ones. Ecstatic Architecture is stimulating, holistic and overpowering; its primary contemporary monument is Frank Gehry's New Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao." "Essays examining the historic and philosophical implications are complemented by major projects in the genre by Frank Gehry, Will Alsop, Ron Arad, Odile Decq, Eric Owen Moss and Shin Takamatsu. Major rhetorical tropes of Ecstatic Architecture are clarified in two extensive photo essays by Charles Jencks. The surprise is that Ecstatic Architecture links such widely divergent strands and forces us to reconsider architecture in a new key."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0471983985
9780471983989

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.

Added entries:

Jencks, Charles.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201661
Call No.: NA680 .E3 1999
Status: Available