Noah's ark : essays on architecture / Hubert Damisch ; edited and introduction by Anthony Vidler ; translated by Julie Rose.

Noah's ark : essays on architecture /

From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's ""Blur"" Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Damisch, Hubert (Author)
Other Authors: Vidler, Anthony (Editor), Rose, Julie, 1952- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016.
Series:Writing architecture.
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
architectural theory.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Aujourd'hui, l'architecture
  • The column, the wall
  • Composing with painting
  • Perrault's colonnade and the functions of the classical order
  • The space between ; a structuralist approach to the Dictionnaire : Viollet-Le-Duc as a forerunner of structuralism
  • From structuralism back to functionalism
  • Leddux with Kant
  • L'autre "ich," l'autriche
  • Austria
  • Ornament to the edge of indecency
  • Against the slope : Le Corbusier's la tourette
  • The slightest difference : Miles Van Der Rohe and the reconstruction of the Barcelona Pavilion
  • Architecture and industry : Jean Prouvé, or the parti of the detail
  • Architecture is ...
  • Blotting out architecture? A fable in seven parts.

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