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Architecture in words : theatre, language and the sensuous space of architecture /

By: Pelletier, Louise, 1963-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xi, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415394708 (hbk.); 9780415394703:; 9780415394703 (hbk.); 0415394716 (pbk.); 9780415394710 (pbk.).Subject(s): Theater architecture -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Theater -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Communication in architecture | Architecture -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 725.82209033
Contents:
Part 1. Character and expression: staging an architectural theory: Architecture as an expressive language -- Character theory in theatrical staging -- Rules of expression and the paradox of acting. -- Part 2. Play-acting and the culture of entertainment: architecture as theatre: Theatre as the locus of public and social expressin -- Theatre architecture and the role of the proscenium arch. -- Part 3. Language and personal imagination: an architecture for the senses: Taste talent, and genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- Newtonian empirical sciences and the order of nature -- Empirical philosophy and the nature of sensations. -- Part 4. Plotting an architectural program: the space of desire: Staging an architecture in words -- The narrative space of desire -- Conclusion: the temporality of human experience.
Summary: Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, this book examines how modernist architecture developed to express political and linguistic intent. It looks at how architects can learn from these 18th century attitudes in order to restore architecture's communicative dimension.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-234) and index.

Part 1. Character and expression: staging an architectural theory: Architecture as an expressive language -- Character theory in theatrical staging -- Rules of expression and the paradox of acting. -- Part 2. Play-acting and the culture of entertainment: architecture as theatre: Theatre as the locus of public and social expressin -- Theatre architecture and the role of the proscenium arch. -- Part 3. Language and personal imagination: an architecture for the senses: Taste talent, and genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics -- Newtonian empirical sciences and the order of nature -- Empirical philosophy and the nature of sensations. -- Part 4. Plotting an architectural program: the space of desire: Staging an architecture in words -- The narrative space of desire -- Conclusion: the temporality of human experience.

Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, this book examines how modernist architecture developed to express political and linguistic intent. It looks at how architects can learn from these 18th century attitudes in order to restore architecture's communicative dimension.

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