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Pages: 145
Authors: Richard Coyne
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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Jacques Derrida’s thinking is radical, provocative, controversial, and even difficult. This book looks afresh at Derrida’s thinking in relation to architect
The Architecture of Deconstruction
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Mark Wigley
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: MIT Press

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By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.
Merleau-Ponty for Architects
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Jonathan Hale
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as infor
The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Francesco Vitale
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-08 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in his academic work and in connection with a number of particular bu
Benjamin for Architects
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Brian Elliott
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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A concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, considering figures of modern art and architecture in detail, and lo