Item Number: 132069 Title: The Material Imagination : Reveries on Architecture and Matter Author: Mindrup, Matthew Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781472424587 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 260pp., 70 b&w illus. Contents: Interrogating the gap between the material and formal imagination: an introduction, Matthew Mindrup. Part I The Material of Architectural Conceptions: Material intuitions: tracing Carlo Scarpa’s nose, Carolina Dayer; Extracting desire: Michelangelo and the forza di levare as an architectural premise, Jonathan Foote; Phenomenona and idea, Steven Holl; Resistance and facture in drawing-out architectural constructions, Matthew Mindrup; Mythic geology: under the surface at Palazzo del Te, Tracey Eve Winton. Part II Construction Matters: Architectural encounters between material and idea, Paul Emmons; Displacing matter, Manuela Antoniu; Jørn Utzon’s reverie of the eye: surfaces of the Sydney Opera House, John Roberts; On the dissolution of the modular imagination, Dan Willis. Part III Imaginative Perceptions of Architecture: Glass, as light as air, as deep as water, Ufuk Ersoy; Found spaces and material memory: remarks on the thickness of time in architecture, Jonathan Hale; The return of the ruin: modernism, history and the material imagination, Jonathan Hill; Adventures in angelic material imagination: the Baroque and the digital as recounted by Putto_579, Alessandro Ayuso; Communication material: experiments with German culture in the 1930 Werkbund Exhibition, Sandra Karina Löschke; Unfinished architecture: urban continuity in the Age of the Complete, Nicholas Temple.
(Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
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