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Architecture Criticism

Chora 4

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

by (author) Alberto Perez-Gomez & Stephen Parcell

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2004
Category
Criticism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773525047
    Publish Date
    Jul 2004
    List Price
    $43.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773525030
    Publish Date
    Jul 2004
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    $110.00
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    9780773570801
    Publish Date
    Jul 2004
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Essays in this group include a discussion of the accomplishments of Gordon Matta-Clark, a reading of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and an analysis of the implications of ethical/formal questions in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein for architecture. Contributors include Caroline Dionne (Université de Québec à Montréal), Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh), Michael Emerson (University of New South Wales), Marc Glaudemans (University of Technology), George Hersey (emeritus, Yale University), Robert Kirkbride (design director, Studiolo), Joanna Merwood (doctoral dissertation, Princeton University), Michel Moussette (Ph.D. at the Université de Montréal), Juhani Pallasmaa (architect, Finland, emeritus Washington University in St. Louis), Alberto Pérez-Gómez (McGill University), David Theodore (McGill University), and Dorian Yurchuk (architect, New York City).

About the authors

Alberto Pérez Gómez directs the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill University, where he is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

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Stephen Parcell is co-editor of the Chora series and associate professor, Dalhousie University.

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