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ISBN: 0300063024 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Yale University Press
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In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods—one literary and one architectural—Bloomer uses the allegorical strategies she finds in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to analyze three works of Giambattista Piranesi (Campo Marzio, Collegio, and the Carceri). Bloomer argues that architecture is a system of representation, with signifying possibilities that go beyond the merely symbolic. Bloomer reads the texts and ideas of Joyce and Piranesi against one another, further illuminating them with insights from myth, religion, linguistics, film theory, nursery rhymes, and personal anecdotes, as well as from poststructuralist, Marxist, and feminist criticism. Combining the strategies of Finnegans Wake, which Joyce himself called architectural, with conventional strategies of architectural thinking, Bloomer creates a new way of thinking architecturally that is not dominated by linear models and that appropriates ideas, parts, and theoretical frameworks from many other disciplines. Demonstrating her argument by dramatic example, Bloomer's treatise—like Joyce's word-play and Piranesi's play with visual representation—offers the pleasure of ongoing discovery.
Symbolism in architecture --- Signs and symbols --- Architecture --- Symbolisme en architecture --- Signes et symboles --- Philosophy --- Philosophie
ISBN: 1878271997 9781878271990 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Princeton architectural press,
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The complicity between architecture and fashion is explored in essays by Mark Wigley, Val Warke, and Leila Kinney, among others, and architectural projects by Machado and Silvetti, Diller + Scofidio, and Venturi Scott Brown. Topics range from the encoding of gender in fashion within the work of Semper, Wagner, Loos, and Le Corbusier to a discussion of the body as a scaffold for the display of ready-made wear. Paulette Singley and Deborah Fausch provide an introduction."Architecture: In Fashion comes recommended with the caveat that it is not light reading. In fact, you may finish with a sense of wonder that it weighs so little, dense as it is with food for thought. This diminutive volume contains more theory than a freshman philosophy text, and the pictures are a hell of a lot better" -- Michael Jack, AIArchitect
Signs and symbols in architecture --- -Architecture, Postmodern --- -Deconstructivism (Architecture) --- -Architectuur en mode --- Architectuur ; Postmodernisme --- Deconstructivisme --- Architectuur ; tekens en symbolen --- Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates --- Machado and Silvetti ass. --- Diller & Scofidio --- 72.038 --- 72:391 --- Architecture, Deconstructivist --- Deconstructionism (Architecture) --- Deconstructivist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Postmodern architecture --- Postmodernism --- Architectural symbolism --- Architecture --- Congresses --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Architectuur en mode --- Architecture, Postmodern --- Deconstructivism (Architecture) --- Symbolism in architecture --- Congresses. --- Machado and Silvetti ass --- Symbolisme en architecture --- Architecture postmoderne --- Déconstructivisme (Architecture) --- Congrès
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