Space as storyteller : spatial jumps in architecture, critical theory, and literature / Laura Chiesa.

Main entry:

Chiesa, Laura, 1967- author.

Title & Author:

Space as storyteller : spatial jumps in architecture, critical theory, and literature / Laura Chiesa.

Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-244) and index.
In the primeval fields of modernity -- Abstract theatricality as impossible synthesis -- Cities and puzzles : multiple and contrasting emotions -- From fictionalizing function to redefining the now of the urban -- Adventuring (in) the architectural field : Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Summary:

Walter Benjamin's Arcades project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected cross-pollinate. In Space as Storyteller, Laura Chiesa explores several stories across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multiple and potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought and practice of Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas / OMA. Space as Storyteller diverts attention from isolated disciplines and historical or geographical contexts toward transdisciplinary encounters that mobilize the potential to invent new spaces of comparison, a potential the author describes as "architecturability."

ISBN:

9780810133457 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0810133458 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780810133464 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810133466 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780810133471
0810133474

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation.
Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944 Criticism and interpretation.
Calvino, Italo Criticism and interpretation.
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982 Criticism and interpretation.
Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Criticism and interpretation.
Koolhaas, Rem Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Calvino, Italo
Koolhaas, Rem
Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982
Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Space and time in literature.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Architecture et littérature.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern
Literature, Modern
Raum
Zeit
Literatur
Architektur
Stadt
Cadre spatio-temporel.
Espace Dans la littérature.
Géographie urbaine Dans la littérature.
École de Francfort.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296195
Call No.: BIB 242605
Status: Available

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