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Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis

Edited by Marc J Neveu, Negin Djavaherian and Robert Kirkbride
Abingdon, Oxon UK: Routledge, 2015.

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Intended as a scholarly 65th anniversary birthday gift for Prof. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Architecture's AppealÌýis a thought-provoking book envisioned to inspire further scholarly inquiries and act as a springboard for discussions in the wider disciplinary field as well as graduate seminars in architectural theory and history. Edited by three distinguished graduates of the Doctoral Program, the volume builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

In this collection, former students, lecturers, and thinkers that have engaged 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Architectural History and Theory program in some capacity, including Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow, Juhani Pallasmaa, Karsten Harries, Steven Holl, Indra Kagis McEwen, David Theodore, Paul Emmons, and Louise Pelletier, offer new insights on questions regarding the role of the architect today and the part of history and theory in contemporary digitally-driven architectural praxis.Ìý

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monochromatic images of arms being strangled with knot to stop circulation.
Plate showing the effect of ligatures on blood flow from William Harvey, De Motus Cordis et Sanguinis (1628).

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Contents:

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Acknowledgements.ÌýÌý

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Introduction byÌýMarc Neveu and Negin DjavaherianÌýÌý

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Part 1: Invoking the GodsÌýÌý

1. The Reading ChamberÌýbyÌýRobert KirkbrideÌýÌý

2. The Tower of Babel and Jacob's Pillar: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of ArchitectureÌýbyÌýKarsten HarriesÌýÌý

3. Reading What is Written Between the Lines: The Esoteric Dimension of Ebenezer Howard'sÌýGarden Cities of To-MorrowÌýbyÌýPaul EmmonsÌýÌý

4.On Virtue and Thomas JeffersonÌýbyÌýIndra Kagis McEwenÌý

ÌýInterlude A:ÌýThe Architect's FallÌýbyÌýSantiago de OrduñaÌý

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ÌýPart 2: WorldmakingÌýÌý

5. Made in Usage: Architecture in Furetière’sÌýDictionnaire UniverselÌýby Caroline DionneÌý

6. Beyond ExpressionÌýbyÌýLily ChiÌýÌý

7. On Water and Other Fluids: A Bloody Account of Urban CirculationÌýbyÌýLouise PelletierÌýÌý

8. Earth or World? Aerial Image and the Prosthetic ImaginationÌýbyÌýLawrence BirdÌýÌý

Interlude B:ÌýThe Door of TheoryÌýbyÌýMarco FrascariÌý

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Part 3: Flesh/ErosÌýÌý

9. Tough Love: A Study of the Architecture of Pezo von EllrichshausenÌýbyÌýDavid LeatherbarrowÌýÌý

10. Flesh of Stone: Buildings, Statues, Entangled BodiesÌýby Tracey Eve WintonÌýÌý

11. Genius as ErosÌýbyÌýLian Chikako ChangÌýÌý

12. The Tactile Legacy of Alvar Aalto and its Relevance to Contemporary PracticeÌýbyÌýKenneth FramptonÌýÌý

Interlude C: Sigmund Freud or the DarkÌýForestÌýRoom RevisitedÌýbyÌýNatalija SubotincicÌýÌý

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Part 4: Fusion of HorizonsÌýÌý

13. Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and ArchitectureÌýbyÌýJuhani PallasmaaÌýÌý

14. An Architectural Creation Myth Borrowed from the Phenomenology of MusicÌýbyÌýStephen ParcellÌýÌý

15. Modus Operandi of an Architectus Doli: Architectural Cunning in the Comic Plays of PlautusÌýbyÌýLisa LandrumÌýÌý

16. Towards an Ecology of the Palladian VillaÌýbyÌýGraham LiveseyÌý

ÌýInterlude D: Transformative Power of ArchitectureÌýbyÌýSteven HollÌýÌý

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Part 5: After the CrisisÌýÌý

17. Juan O'Gorman and the Genesis and Overcoming of Functionalism in Mexican Modern ArchitectureÌýbyÌýJuan Manuel HerediaÌýÌý

18. Architecture or Acceleration: Position as OppositionÌýbyÌýAnne BordeleauÌýÌý

19. Building Upon Love in an Age of InnovationÌýbyÌýPeter OlshavskyÌýÌý

20. Content and Craft: What do we do when we do the History of Architecture?ÌýÌý

by David TheodoreÌý

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Interlude E: Two Poems 2000-2011 by Ricardo Castro

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List of Figures.ÌýÌý

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List of Contributors.

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