Title & Author:

Writingplace : investigations in architecture and literature / edited by Klaske Havik, Jorge Mejía Hernández, Susana Oliveira, Mark Proosten, Mike Schäfer.

Publication:

Rotterdam : nai010publishers, 2016.
©2016

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245).
1. Imagination: literature, architecture, and urban life : Learning from stories: narrative imagination in urbanism and architectural design / Bart Keunen -- Reality without colours: imagining architecture through Calvino's eyes / Daria Ricchi -- The critical relevance of fictional projects: about buildings that do not (yet) exist / Deborah Levy -- 2. Memory: narrative and poetics in architectural history : Language, literary approaches and architectural meaning / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- The semiotics of timelessness: reading 'mythic' architecture / Nadia Sels -- Writing the Renaissance villa / Yvonne Elet -- Fox/river/house: a translation / Nora Wendl -- 3. Openness: narrative experiments in architecture : Narrative as an educational approach: literary methods in architectural education / Wim van den Bergh and Mark Proosten -- Archives, narratives and bricolage: more themes from the Manhattan transcripts / Ioanna Angelidou -- Exhausting the narration: exhausting the architecture / Esteban Restrepo Restrepo -- 4. Complexity: writing as a mode of architectural investigation : Between sites and stories, between texts and times: a dialogue / Katja Grillner and Klaske Havik -- Practical ambivalence: a dialogical approach to design and public space / Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -- A marvellous real: configuring Beirut's vague urbain / Carole Levesque -- 5. Inclusivity: towards an 'architextural' praxis : The westward-moving house and other stories: J.B. Jackson, reading and writing the landscape / Bruno Notteboom -- Textual cities/working drawings: rereading the space of drawing / Sophia-Konstantina Banou -- Moments and spaces / Wim Cuyvers.

Summary:

"Writingplace: investigations in architecture and literature marks a step forward in an emerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on written language as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary methods in architectural and urban research, education and design"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9789462082816 (paperback)
9462082812 (paperback)
(e-book)
9789462082823
9462082820

Subject:

Architecture and literature.
Architecture et littérature.
Architettura Rapporti [con la] Letteratura Congressi Delft 2013

Added entries:

Havik, Klaske, 1975- editor.
Hernández, Jorge Mejía, editor.
Oliveira, Susana, editor.
Proosten, Mark, editor.
Schäfer, Mike, editor.

Investigations in architecture and literature
Writing place

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294339
Call No.: BIB 239866
Status: Available