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Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity book cover

1st Edition

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity

By Lorens Holm Copyright 2010
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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This well-argued, analytic text provides a greater understanding of spatial issues in the field of architecture. Re-interpreting the fifteenth century demonstration of perspective, Lorens Holm puts it in relation to today’s theories of subjectivity and elaborates for the first time the theoretical link between architecture and psychoanalysis. Divided into three sections, Brunelleschi, Lacan,... Read more

Preface: Facade … Foundation.  Introduction: Vision and its Doubles  Part 1: Projection and Introjection  1. Two Cartoons: The New Yorkers  2. Brunelleschi and Le Corbusier (Part 1): Photograph and Snapshot  3. Brunelleschi and Le Corbusier (Part 2): Image and Field  Part 2: Perspective, the Mirror Stage of Space  4. The Origins of Perspective: Reading Manetti  5. The Origins of Perspective: Brunelleschi's Mirror  6. Intercession: The Gaze and Voice of Brunelleschi  Part 3: Space and its Object  7. Desire Position Opacity and Death in the Visual Field  8. The Parthenon and Le Corbusier.  Conclusion: The Death of Space

Biography

Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee. He has taught architecture at the Architectural Association, University College London, and at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior publications on Lacan and architecture have appeared in the journals Perspecta (2010), Haecceity (2008 & 2007), Critical Quarterly (2000 & 2007), and Assemblage (1993).

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