Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this impact on Architecture, providing sixteen essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. An extended essay by the editors gives an in-depth introduction to the subject. Essays range from psychoanalysis and interiors; colonialism and modern urbanism; gender and the renaissance; to heteroptopia and Las Vegas. Contributors come from Europe and the USA, and include Iain Borden, Zeynep Celik, Sarah Chaplin, Beatriz Colomina, Darell Fields, Murray Fraser, Diane Ghirado, Joe Kerr, Clive Knights, Neil Leach, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell, Katherine Shonfield, Helen Thomas, Jeremy Till, Henry Urbach and Sarah Wigglesworth.
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Iain Borden and Jane Rendell both lecture in architectural history and theory at The Bartlett, University College London, UK.
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This book is essential to anyone aspiring to be an architect. For the greatest assets of an architect are his understandings of the history behind the buildings of a city and not only the history, but also the theories driving the great architects to make their decisions.Iain Borden and all those who contributed to this work make this clear in their wonderfully crafted book.
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In the summer of 1985, I lay on a beach on Crete, struggling to read a text whose pages and words seemed to me to be wholly resistant to offering up their meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theorised history, gynaecology suite, advertising light, reflective history, baroque reason, rambling texts, delle chiese, rethinking architecture, thick time, luminous signs, architectural discourse, public brothels, original history, symbolic category, everyday time, architectural history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Maison de Verre, Jardines del Pedregal, Getty Center, Los Angeles, Richard Meier, Henri Lefebvre, Frederick Kiesler, Endless House, Jane Rendell, United States, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Virginia Woolf, Bilbao Guggenheim, Osman Hamdi, End of the Classical, Holy Trinity, Jean Baudrillard, Mexico City, City of London, Edward Said, Paul Ricoeur, Pierce Egan, Street Haunting New!
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In the summer of 1985, I lay on a beach on Crete, struggling to read a text whose pages and words seemed to me to be wholly resistant to offering up their meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theorised history, gynaecology suite, advertising light, reflective history, baroque reason, rambling texts, delle chiese, rethinking architecture, thick time, luminous signs, architectural discourse, public brothels, original history, symbolic category, everyday time, architectural history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Maison de Verre, Jardines del Pedregal, Getty Center, Los Angeles, Richard Meier, Henri Lefebvre, Frederick Kiesler, Endless House, Jane Rendell, United States, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Virginia Woolf, Bilbao Guggenheim, Osman Hamdi, End of the Classical, Holy Trinity, Jean Baudrillard, Mexico City, City of London, Edward Said, Paul Ricoeur, Pierce Egan, Street Haunting New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy) by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel on 13 pages
- The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space by Iain Borden on 5 pages
- The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord on 4 pages
- Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City by Iain Borden on 4 pages
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf on page 277, page 280, and page 281
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