Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity (Theoretical Perspectives in Architectura) [Hardcover]

Ms. Catherine Ingraham (Author)

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Publication Date: March 30, 1998 | Series: Theoretical Perspectives in Architectura

In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical, and historical points of view, finding the following points of convergence: architecture's relation to property, politics, and economy; architecture's relation to propriety and the need to keep things "in line"; and architecture's relation to the proper name, human identity, object identity, and spatial location and demarcation. In this engaging discussion, Ingraham considers maps, architectural plans, the laws of geometry, systems of architectural knowledge, and mythologies of architectural origin in work by Le Corbusier, Vitruvius, Alberti, Tafuri, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, Shakespeare, Lacan, Deleuze, Rilke, and Stendhal. Entering the current complex debates about the relation between theory and practice in architecture, the author also addresses themes in psychoanalytic criticism, poststructural theory, and feminist criticism. Her examination thus moves beyond architecture and its literal structures to the notion of epistemological structure that architecture as a discipline and practice upholds and promotes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (March 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300071191
• ISBN-13: 978-0300071191
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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I am a graduate student of architecture:
This is a wonderful and exciting text.
Ingraham, coming from a literary background, enters onto the stage of architecture with an fresh perspective of the production and reproduction of architecture.
Her study pays accute attention to the productive details of architectural drawing, and provides an interesting analysis of such production in political, gender and historical terms.