Sequences
Subtitle: Saw Only the Moon
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9783211836422
Subjects: Theory of architecture; Architecture; Criticism; Architecture / General; Architecture and Psychiatry; Architektur; Bildband; Experimental Architecture; Experimentelle Architektur; Monograph; Monographie; Non-Classifiable; General
First sentence: Describing one of the beginnings of the institutionalization of the Therapeutic, in Manhattan, psychoanalyst Lawrence Kubie once painted a lively picture of contemporary urban life, its ever-increasing speed and congestion.
Description: Subject of the book is an architectural encounter with the psyche, the starting point being an intervention in a solitary confinement cell of a psychiatric clinic in 1997. Crumbling edges, shifting perceptions, a world of confinement and liberated space, a network of thoughts and illusions, "Sequences" describes the development of architectonic structures in an in-between world of unstable equilibrium. Architecture, art, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy are all linked by perception. By means of pictures, drawings and (thought) models, the different layers are exposed. The book has no beginning and no end, it offers an insight into various sequences involved in the design process.