Chora 5
Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2007
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773532625
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $40.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532601
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773577404
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
The fifth volume in this acclaimed series on the history and philosophy of architecture crosses a wide geographical and temporal range, moving from Greco-Roman antiquity to tenth-century India to contemporary Thailand and New York. The inter-disciplinary essays share a common theme in their reflections on the meaning of 'place' and 'place-making' as a richer alternative to the conceptual abstraction of universal ‘space.’
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.