Title & Author:

The architectural capriccio : memory, fantasy and invention / [edited] by Lucien Steil.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2014]

Description:

lxviii, 474 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Foreword by Michael Graves.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: "Il Capriccio": Definition of the Capriccio (Caprice) in the French Larousse Dictionary -- Meaning and Purpose of the Capriccio / David Mayernik -- The Poietic Image / Samir Younes -- The Capricci of Giovanni Paolo Panini / David Mayernik -- Patronage in the Golden Age of the Capriccio / Selena Anders -- The Grand Tour / Lucien Steil -- Capriccio, the Leap of the Goat or the Unexpected / Jose Cornelio da Silva -- Metaphors for a Political Urban Landscape: Schinkel's Capricci of a New "Athens-on-the-Spree" / Jean-Francois Lejeune -- J.M. Gandy's Composite Views for John Soane / William Palin -- American Capriccio: Imaginary Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Painting / Gail Leggio -- The Capricci of Carl Laubin / David Watkin -- Symmetria and Ethics, the Didactic Capriccio / David Ligare -- Settings: Emily Allchurch and the Old Masters / Minna Moore Ede -- Massimo Scolari / Leon Krier -- Drawing / Leon Krier -- Capriccio / Leon Krier
Note continued: "Imago Luxemburgi" / Leon Krier -- The Capriccio and Poetical Realism / Lucien Steil -- Urban Chiaroscuro (after Piranesi): Behind the Scenes / Emily Allchurch -- Sublime Architecture: Capricci in Sketchbook and Paintings / Lucien Steil -- Le Corbusier's Eye and the Vanishing Point of Modernity / David Brain -- The Architectural Project: An Homage to Rob Krier / Lucien Steil -- "La Citta Analoga": Thoughts on the Urban Capriccio for the Design of Real Cities / Pier Carlo Bontempi -- Magical Realism in Miami / Javier Cenicacelaya -- A Very British Capriccio / Alireza Sagharchi -- Building the Capriccio / Robert Adam -- Capricci Capricciosi / Ettore Maria Mazzola -- The Double Nature of the Architectural Capriccio: From Pictorial Fiction to Urban Reality / Jean Dethier -- Postface: "Techne" and Technology / Lucien Steil -- The Aura of the Computer Generated Image: Or, Virtuosity and the Cult of the Artifact / Gil Gorski.

Summary:

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Robert Stern, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Cappriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover, demonstrates its contemporary validity.

ISBN:

9781409431916 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409431916 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture in art.
Fantastic architecture.
Architecture dans l'art.
Architecture fantastique.
fantastic architecture.
Capriccio
Fantastische Architektur

Added entries:

Steil, Lucien.
Graves, Michael, 1934-2015
Dethier, Jean
Mayernik, David
Scolari, Massimo, 1943-
Adam, Robert, 1948-
Watkin, David, 1941-
Krier, Léon
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285609
Call No.: BIB 225307
Status: Available