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Reading Architecture - Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Hardcover)
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Reading Architecture - Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Hardcover)
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Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely
on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings
when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why
rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of architectural
practices and analysis when it comes to academic research and
educational projects? Why trust authors and writers instead of
sociologists or scientists when it comes to planning for the future
of cities? This book builds on the existing interdisciplinary
bibliography on architecture and literature, but prioritizes
literature's capacity to talk about the lived experience of place
and the premise that literary language can often express the
inexpressible. It sheds light on the importance of a literary
instead of a pictorial imagination for architects and it looks into
four contemporary architectural subjects through a wide variety of
literary works. Drawing on novels that engage cities from around
the world, the book reveals aspects of urban space to which other
means of architectural representation are blind. Whether through
novels that employ historical buildings or sites interpreted
through specific literary methods, it suggests a range of
methodologies for contemporary architectural academic research. By
exploring the power of narrative language in conveying the
experience of lived space, it discusses its potential for
architectural design and pedagogy. Questioning the massive
architectural production of today's globalized capital-driven
world, it turns to literature for ways to understand, resist or
suggest alternative paths for architectural practice. Despite
literature's fictional character, the essays of this volume reveal
true dimensions of and for places beyond their historical, social
and political reality; dimensions of utmost importance for
architects, urban planners, historians and theoreticians nowadays.
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