Architectural philosophy
By: Andrew Benjamin
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy
Description: Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy explores both the definition of the site and the possibility of alterity. The analysis of the nature of the present and the complex sructure of repetition allows for the possibility of judgement, a judgement that arises from a reworked politics of architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-214) and index