The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning

Robert Harbison

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Langue : anglais

Edité par MIT Press Ltd, 1993

0262581221 / 9780262581226

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The pristine, the ruined, the ephemeral, and even the notional are the subject of Robert Harbison's highly original and admittedly romantic contribution to the literature of architecture. His fresh perceptions open this practical art to new interpretations as he explores the means by which buildings, real or imagined, evade or surpass functional necessities while sometimes satisfying them. What fascinates Harbison in these discussions are the paradoxes and ironies of function that give rise to meaning, to a psychological impact that may or may not have been intended. He chooses examples from an architectural borderland - of gardens, monuments, ideal cities and fortification, ruins, paintings, and unbuildable buildings -where use and symbolism overlap; he examines the exceptions at the edges of a field that will illuminate its center. Harbison's pursuit of man's efforts to fashion art from nonhuman life begins with a consideration of gardens and the organic architecture of the English Arts and Crafts movement and of Gaudi, then turns to monuments (Claes Oldenburg, Christo, the Vietnam Memorial) that are either the nearest or the furthest thing from gardens. Harbison's discussion of fortification and urban planning leads to metaphorical themes (fort-features in churches or prisons or Fascist municipal buildings) and mocked-up worlds (Williamsburg, Disneyland), and to the subject of fictional space as expressed in ruins, in painting, in the unbuildable, and finally in the inconceivable as revealed in Kafka's sketches.

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Titre
The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning
Auteur
Robert Harbison
Éditeur
MIT Press Ltd
Année de publication
1993
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0262581221
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780262581226

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