"The volume incorporates ideas and materials that first appeared in a range of previously published essays. None of those essays appear here in their original form, and in many cases, only parts of those essays are incorporated into the chapters to which they relate, with most chapters being entirely original to this volume." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Place and dwelling -- Homelessness and modernity -- Authenticity and essentialism -- Design and the human -- Architecture and truth -- Building and memory -- The line and the hand -- Place and parametricism -- Verticality and the street -- Space and interiority -- Epilogue : rethinking architecture.
Summary:
"Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas' research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics around the issues of place, architecture and landscape and particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Martin Heidegger. In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas' primary focus is to rethink of these issues in a way that is directly informed by an understanding of place and the human relation it. With essays on a range of architectural and design concerns, as well as engaging with other thinkers on topics including textuality in architecture, contemporary high-rise construction, the significance of the line, the relation between building and memory and the idea of authenticity in architecture, this book departs from the traditional phenomenological focus and provides students and scholars with a new ontological assessment of landscape and architecture. As such, it may also be used on other 'spatial' or 'topographic' disciplines including geography, sociology, anthropology, and art in which the 'spatial turn' has been so important"-- Provided by publisher.
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