On the ruins of Babel architectural metaphor in German thought
The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433908406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The decline of the classical orders
- Science or art? : architecture's place within the disciplines
- Architecture in Kant's thought : the metaphor's genealogy
- How much architecture is in Kant's architectonic of pure reason?
- The house of memory : architectural technologies of the self
- Goethe's architectural epiphanies
- The building in Bildung : Goethe, Palladio, and the architectural media
- Goethe and the disappointing site : buildings that do not live up to their images
- Gothic deconstruction : Hegel, Libeskind, and the avant-garde
- Benjamin's mythic architecture.
