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This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman's work
through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural
projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and
arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role.
The book explores Eisenman's approach to architectural form
generation and thinking. It does this through a thematic and formal
analysis of projects and writings from the mid-1970s to the
mid-1990s. Following an introductory chapter addressing the theme
of potentialities, the book is organised in two parts. The first
part focuses on key period writings of Eisenman, framing the close
reading around a practice of resistance, the architect's approach
to history as analysis, and the transformative conceptualisation of
time. In the second part, the book undertakes an analysis of select
projects from the 1980s and 1990s. Three formal preoccupations and
conceptual orientations - ground manipulations, figuration, and
spatial events - organise this part of the book. Previously
unpublished material from the Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montreal, provides primary source material. A
concluding chapter addresses Eisenman's teaching, its relation to
his larger project, and possible legacies for educators,
practitioners, scholars, and theorists.
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents
a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth
century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual
orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These
three trajectories - the plan as conceptual device, a logic of
sensation, and temporalities - serve to organise individual
chapters in the central sections of the book and provide a new lens
to the study of period work, revealing architectural conditions and
consequent spatial effects little explored to date. Trajectories in
Architecture adds to scholarship and expands our understanding of
the role of conceptual and formal criteria in the analysis and
creation of works of architecture. The book provides potentially
transformative new interpretations of influential architects and
key projects from the last half of the twentieth century to reveal
new alignments and potentialities in architecture's recent past as
a contribution to identifying future possibilities. In so doing the
book argues for the still latent potential in modern architecture's
traditions and design principles and their future expression.
Trajectories in Architecture includes analysis of significant
projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk,
Louis I. Kahn, and I. M. Pei.
Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents
a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth
century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual
orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These
three trajectories - the plan as conceptual device, a logic of
sensation, and temporalities - serve to organise individual
chapters in the central sections of the book and provide a new lens
to the study of period work, revealing architectural conditions and
consequent spatial effects little explored to date. Trajectories in
Architecture adds to scholarship and expands our understanding of
the role of conceptual and formal criteria in the analysis and
creation of works of architecture. The book provides potentially
transformative new interpretations of influential architects and
key projects from the last half of the twentieth century to reveal
new alignments and potentialities in architecture's recent past as
a contribution to identifying future possibilities. In so doing the
book argues for the still latent potential in modern architecture's
traditions and design principles and their future expression.
Trajectories in Architecture includes analysis of significant
projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk,
Louis I. Kahn, and I. M. Pei.
"Magic: more contagious than the common cold..."
One wintry morning in Dubuque, Iowa, Kelley Strickland gets
"triggered" by magic after reading from a strange book she
shoplifts. And her twin brother Jeroan meets an old man who infects
him with magic as well. Soon there's an outbreak of contagious
magic in Dubuque, Iowa.
"Wild magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal..."
When they find themselves hunted by an ancient, power-hungry
Sorcerer and his over-sized operatives, Jeroan and Kelley must act,
before this wild epidemic of magic turns deadly for them and all of
their new friends.
"Contagious magic: there just might not be a cure..."
And as if that wasn't bad enough, one stormy night the twins
lose all their magic, along with their parents. The twins have to
work together for the first time in their lives to get their
parents back and restore order-and magic-to their world.
"Contagious Magic" collects "A Sudden Outbreak of Magic," "A
Wild Epidemic of Magic," and "A Lasting Cure for Magic."
In the near future, over thirty black alien ships carrying a race
called the Wannoshay crash-land across midwestern America and
southern Canada. At first, humans and aliens attempt integration,
but it's a hard future plagued with terrorism, violence, suicide
cults, and designer drugs. When mysterious explosions at factories
employing the aliens are blamed on the Wannoshay, they are forcibly
transferred to internment camps. Soon the aliens begin to succumb
to a strange disease called "soul curdling" and the sickness seems
to be spreading...to humans An unlikely group of humans, with even
more unlikely connections with the Wannoshay, travel to the alien
mother ship in hopes of alleviating the Wannoshay's plight, and to
learn the secrets of the strange, interstellar visitors. Secrets
are powerful things, and decisions must then be made. But decisions
are not easy when it comes to the Wannoshay and their human hosts.
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