Title & Author:

Intersections : architectural histories and critical theories / [edited by] Iain Borden and Jane Rendell.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : From chamber to transformer: epistemological challenges and tendencies in the intersection of architectural histories and critical theories / Iain Borden and Jane Rendell -- Tendency 1: Theory as objects of study : Walter Benjamin, mimesis and the dreamworld of photography / Neil Leach -- Historical errors and black tropes / Darell W. Fields -- Space House: the psyche of building / Beatriz Colomina -- The fragility of structure, the weight of interpretation: some anomalies in the life and opinions of Eisenman and Derrida / Clive R. Knights -- Tendency 2: Theorised interpretation : A fitting fetish: the interiors of the Maison de Verre / Sarah Wigglesworth --Sublimination (el Pedregal) / Helen Thomas -- Beyond the empire of the signs / Murray Fraser and Joe Kerr -- Dark lights, contagious space / Henry Urbach -- Colonialism, Orientalism and the canon / Zeynep Çelik -- Women and space in a Renaissance Italian city / Diane Ghirardo -- Tendency 3: Theorising historical methodology : Heterotopia deserta: Las Vegas and other spaces / Sarah Chaplin -- Thick edge: architectural boundaries in the postmodern metropolis / Iain Borden -- "Serpentine allurements": disorderly bodies/disorderly spaces / Jane Rendell -- The construction of identity: Virginia Woolf's city / Barbara Penner --Thick time: architecture and the traces of time / Jeremy Till -- The use of fiction to reinterpret architectural and urban space / Katherine Shonfield.

Summary:

Intersections represents a newly emergent approach to the history of architecture that addresses both the relevance of critical theories to an historical understanding of architecture and the development of those theories.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415232929
9780415232920
0415231795 (pbk.)
9780415231794 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Historiography.
Critical theory.
Architecture Historiographie.
Théorie critique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
Architekturtheorie
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Borden, Iain.
Rendell, Jane, 1967-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215618
Call No.: NA190 .B6 2000
Status: Available