Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Litera
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810133458
ISBN-13
9780810133457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219121705
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Space As Storyteller : Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature
Subject
European / General, Modern / 20th Century, Semiotics & Theory, History / General, European / Italian, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Architecture
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-014075
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"In this impressive new work, Chiesa explores major theories and texts across the modernist realm while distinguishing between different times, languages, cultures, and art forms. This is a valuable addition to the field of spatial studies." --Patrick Bray, author of The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, "...Chiesa deserves credit for bringing into focus, among other movements, the inventive relations between literature and architecture in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s... Chiesa has an undisguised fascination for the infinite connectivity of Koolhaas's postmodernism, where the interests of capital are obscured in the delirium of movement, play, and performance. But this is also the source of Chiesa's own dynamic, which is consistently provocative in its ability to make unexpected connections across disciplines." -- Modernism/modernity, "Chiesa makes an original contribution to this new area of research connecting architecture and critical theory. She creatively brings together theoretical, literary, and architectural texts, while familiarizing readers with previously unknown material." --Susan Bernstein, author of Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger, "In this impressive new work, Chiesa explores major theories and texts across the modernist realm while distinguishing between different times, languages, cultures, and art forms. This is a valuable addition to the field of spatial studies." --Patrick Bray, author of The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, "Chiesa makes an original contribution to this new area of research connecting architecture and critical theory. She creatively brings together theoretical, literary, and architectural texts, while familiarizing readers with previously unknown material." --Susan Bernstein, author of Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
809.9384
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Notes on the Text Introduction Chapter 1. In the Primeval Fields of Modernity 1.1 Introduction Part 1. Legibility: A Methodology of Composition 1.2 Setting the Sails --Experience, Sea Voyages, and a Method of Drafting 1.3 Legibility, Interpenetrations, and the Interspersing of the What-Has-Been and the Now 1.4 Constructing on the Mobile Scaffolding Part 2. Spaces of Knowability 1.5 Pas-sages : Wise-Paths or Not-Wise? The Hollow Mold of Modernity and Architecturability 1.6 Baudelaire''s Allegory, Schwellen of Interpretation, and the "Colportage Phenomenon of Space" Chapter 2. Abstract Theatricality as Impossible Synthesis Part 1. Staging the Ephemeral and the Bursts of the Cityscape 2.1 From the Benjaminian "Constructors" to the Second Waves of Futurism 2.2 Plastic Complexes and "Theatrical Instantaneous Acts": Balla, Depero, and the Synthetic Theater 2.3 Prampolini and the Abstraction of the Emotive Theatrical Space Part 2. Toward Futurist Allegories of Architecture 2.4 From Machine-Age Art and the Actor-Space to the Magnetic and Magic Theaters 2.5 A Theatrical Synthesis in Chains: Reconstruct Italy with Futurist Sant''Elia Architecture Chapter 3. Cities and Puzzles: Multiple and Contrasting Emotions 3.1 Of Tenderness and Tension 3.2 Italo Calvino and Invisible Cities : Dialogical and Descriptive Illuminations 3.3 Architectures as Mass Media and Super-Cities in an Interdisciplinary Geography 3.4 Georges Perec''s Species of Spaces : An Adventure of the 1970s 3.5 Life: A User''s Manual --Invisible Scaffolding, Rooms, and Casse-tête Chapter 4. From Fictionalizing Function to Redefining the Now of the Urban Part 1. Fictionalizing the Extremes of Functionality 4.1 A Few Glimpses of Superstudio: "Cautionary Tales," Education Film Script , and "Multimediainfocenters" Part 2. Bernard Tschumi: How to Trigger Architecture Radically 4.2 A Brief Note on Situated Technologies, before Their Time 4.3 Opening Up the Archictectural Field through the Notion of Space 4.4 Inventing Cinematically Mutant Architectures 4.5 Acting Out the Intermingle: Architectural Gestures at the Parc de la Villette 4.6 Conceptualizing the Conditions for the Event-Cities Chapter 5. Adventuring (in) the Architectural Field: Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture Part 1: S,M,L,XL and its "Architecture-Characters" 5.1 The Novel(s) of Architecture 5.2 Three Glances at S and M , or How to Effectively Render Projects in Intermedial Formats 5.2.a Designing from a Distance 5.2.b Cartoonizing Developers'' Taste: OMA''s Junk 5.2.c Turning Spaces Inside Out: A Mirage Project 5.3 A Theatrical Piece vs. A Guided Tour, or the Space that Entertains 5.4 Re-Enabling the Manifesto Style for the Field of After-Architecture 5.5 Metropolitan Moments and Montages: Euralille 5.6 An Intermission: About Networks and Traveling 5.7 Sedating the Classical City: The Generic City 5.8 Exiting the Book: A Fl'neur for the Twenty-First Century and Awaiting China''s Adventures Part 2: Cartoonish "Architecture-Characters" Popping Up from Junkspace 5.9 From AMO''s Altases to the Builtscape as an Endless, Consuming Inside ("Junkspace") 5.10 Yet Another Ambiguous Publication: Colporting Architectures in Space 5.11 Dewey Decimal System/MLA''s Style 5.12 A Gigantic Built Palindrome: Performing an Allegory of Data Flows Coda Works Cited Notes Index
Synopsis
In S pace as Storyteller , Laura Chiesa explores several stories across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multiple and potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought and practice of Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas/OMA., Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected cross-pollinate. In S pace as Storyteller , Laura Chiesa explores several stories across a wide range of time that narrate spatial jumps, from Benjamin's tangential take on the cityscape, the experimentalism of Futurist theatricality, the multiple and potential atlases narrated by Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, and the posturban thought and practice of Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas/OMA. Space as Storyteller diverts attention from isolated disciplines and historical or geographical contexts toward transdisciplinary encounters that mobilize the potential to invent new spaces of comparison, a potential the author describes as "architecturability."
LC Classification Number
PN56.S667C466 2016
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