Architecture in the age of divided representation
Subtitle: the question of creativity in the shadow of production
By: Dalibor Vesely.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- Philosophy; Architecture -- Aesthetics
Description: "The central part of the book addresses the question of divided representation - the tension between the instrumental and the communicative roles of architecture - in the period of the baroque, when architectural thinking was seriously challenged by the emergence of modern science. Vesely sees the restoration of this communicative role of architecture as the key to the restoration of architecture as the topological and corporeal foundation of culture; what the book is to our literacy, he argues, architecture is to culture as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [464]-491) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity, freedom, and destiny; title: The nature of communicative space; title: The perspectival transformation of the medieval world; title: The age of divided representation; title: The foundations of modern architecture; title: Creativity in the shadow of modern technology; title: The rehabilitation of fragment; title: Toward a poetics of architecture.