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Noah´s Ark: Essays on Architecture
Hubert Damisch
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Description for Noah´s Ark: Essays on Architecture
Paperback. Editor(s): Vidler, Anthony. Translator(s): Rose, Julie. Series: Writing Architecture. Num Pages: 392 pages, 61 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AMA; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136. .
From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's Blur Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development. Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a displaced philosopher, Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to think architecture in a different key, as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides an open series of structural models, Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development ... Read more
From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's Blur Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development. Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a displaced philosopher, Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to think architecture in a different key, as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides an open series of structural models, Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Writing Architecture
Condition
New
Weight
591g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528580
SKU
V9780262528580
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About Hubert Damisch
Hubert Damisch is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has held posts at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington. He is the author of The Origin of Perspective, ... Read more
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