Intervals in the philosophy of architecture / edited by Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Stephen Parcell.

Published in association with the McGill University History and Theory of Architecture Graduate Program.

Includes bibliographical references.

Invention as a celebration of materials / Myriam Blais -- Sounding the path : dwelling and dreaming / Ricardo L. Castro -- Surface and appearance in Guarino Guarini's SS. Sindone Chapel / Janine Debanne -- To see the world as a limited whole : human and divine perspectives in the works of Salomon de Caus / Katja Grillner -- Demas : the human body as a tectonic construct / Maria Karvouni -- Juan Bautista Villalpando's divine model in architectural theory / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- Fragmentation, improvisation, and urban quality : a heterotopian motif in Sigfried Kracauer / Henrik Reeh -- Vitruvius, Nietzsche, and the architecture of the body / Mark Rozahegy -- A grand piano filled with sand / Soren Thurell -- Origins and ornaments : Jean-Jacques Lequeu and the poetics of the city in L'Architecture Civile / Franca Trubiano -- Architecture and the vegetal soul / David Winterton -- Domesticity and diremption : poetics of space in the work of Jana Sterback / Irena Zantovska Murray -- Absent bodies wiring rooms / Ellen Zweig.

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This third volume in the CHORA series continues to explore diverse historical and critical issues in architecture. Attempting to discover architectural alternatives based on concepts of aesthetics, technology, or sociology, the contributors offer refreshing interdisciplinary explorations of architectural tradition.

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