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The Architecture of the Illusive Distance (Paperback)
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The Architecture of the Illusive Distance (Paperback)
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Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries,
museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay
between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural
imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions,
the development of their architecture, and their transformation
over time. The relationship between culture and architecture is
often perceived as a monologic relationship. Architecture is seen
to embody, represent and/or reflect the values, the beliefs, and
the aesthetic ideals of a culture. Ameri argues that this is at
best a partial and restrictive view, and that if architecture is a
cultural statement, it is a performative one. It does not merely
represent culture, but constructs, reifies, and imposes culture as
the unalterable shape of reality. Whereas the concept and the study
of cultural performatives have had an important critical impact on
the humanities, architecture as a cultural performative has not
received the necessary scholarly attention and, in part, this book
aims to fill this gap. Whereas building-type studies have been
largely restricted to elucidating how best to design building-types
based on historic and contemporary precedents, studies in the
humanities that analytically and critically engage the secular
institutions and their history as cultural performatives, typically
cast a blind or perfunctory glance at the performative complicity
of their architecture. This book aims to address the omissions in
both these approaches. The library, the museum, and the
movie-theater have been selected for close critical study because,
this book argues, each has been instituted to house, 'domesticate,'
and restrain a specific form of representation. The aim has been to
protect and promulgate the metaphysics of presence as Jacques
Derrida expounds the concept. This book proposes that it is against
the dangers of unconstrained cohabitation of reality and
representation that the library, the m
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