How Architecture Got Its Hump

How Architecture Got Its Hump
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780262531887
ISBN-13 : 0262531887
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Book Synopsis How Architecture Got Its Hump by : Roger Connah

Download or read book How Architecture Got Its Hump written by Roger Connah and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture. In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural hallucinations or alibis for revisions of history. Or, are they a means for widening the site of architecture? Connah shows how these disciplines have not only contributed to new developments in architectural theory and practice, but have begun to insinuate new possibilities of space. Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations. Taking interference a step further, Connah also considers the implications of philosophical incongruity and architectural unrest. He asks how architecture loses its head, transcends the dead language it now entraps, and houses meanings it wants to contest. Hardly bleak questions, suggests Connah, for they point to ways for architecture to rescue itself.


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Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture. In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other discipli