TY - BOOK ID - 78140286 TI - Architectural philosophy : repetition, function, alterity PY - 2000 SN - 1472545435 1281291579 9786611291570 1847141706 9781847141705 9780485006056 0485006057 9780485004151 9781847141705 0485004151 0485006057 9781472545435 9781281291578 6611291571 PB - New Brunswick : Athlone Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Architecture. KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Philosophy. KW - Design and construction KW - Philosophie de l'architecture KW - Typologie KW - Kant, Emmanuel KW - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm KW - Descartes, René KW - Eisenman, Peter, KW - Aesthetics KW - architectural criticism KW - Eisenman, Peter, 1932 KW - -Architecture KW - -Aesthetics KW - -Philosophie de l'architecture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78140286 AB - Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy explores both the definition of the site and the possibility of alterity. The analysis of the nature of the present and the complex sructure of repetition allows for the possibility of judgement, a judgement that arises from a reworked politics of architecture ER -