1st Edition

Glorious Visions John Soane's Spectacular Theater

By Helene Furján Copyright 2011
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane’s... Read more

Introduction  1. Genius  2. Models  3. Scenes  4. Mirrors  5. Associations  6. Fictions  7. Shadows  7. Mementos  Conclusion: The Poetry of Architecture

Biography

Helene Furján is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania, where she is Director and a founding editor of viaBooks (viaOccupations 2008; viaDirt 2011). She has published in Gray Room, AAFiles, Assemblage, Casabella, Journal of Architecture, JAE, Art Forum, and Interstices. She published Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation with Sylvia Lavin, and has chapters in Intimate Metropolis, 306090: Models, Softspace, Gen(H)ome, and Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture.