Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience

✍ Scribed by Angeliki Sioli and Yoonchun Jung

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Preface: On Reading Architecture
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience
Section 1: Readings on (Un)Familiar Places
1 Oran, the Capital of Boredom
2 Discovering “Paris and its Folds, Paris and its Faces”
3 Traces of Kristiania: A Topographical Reading of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
4 The Architecture of Another Man’s Room: Unveiling Stories of Seoul’s Apartments
Section 2: Readings on Architectural Research
5 Fabrics of Reality: Art and Architecture in László Krasznahorkai
6 How Places Speak: A Plea for Poetic Receptivity in Architectural Research
7 W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz: Architecture as a Bridge between the Lost Past and the Present
8 Poetic Imagination and the Architecture of Poe
9 Montréal Mythologies: Narrating the City
Section 3: Readings on Architectural Design and Pedagogy
10 The Gesture of Drawing in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince
11 Architecture Drawn Out of Bruno Schulz’s Poetic Prose
12 Writing, Model Making and Inventing in Paul Scheerbart’s The Perpetual Motion Machine
13 Melvilla: An(other) Underline Reading
14 Dreaming the City through Unicorn Skulls: Reading Murakami with Agamben
Section 4: Readings on Contemporary Architectural Reality and Practice
15 We Build Spaces with Words: Spatial Agency, Recognition, and Narrative
16 The Architectural Turn in Contemporary Literature
17 “Like This and Also Like That”: Tactics from the Tales of Nguyen Huy Thiep
18 Lost and Longing: The Sense of Space in E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
Image Credits
Index