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Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality book cover

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Trajectories in Architecture Plan, Sensation, Temporality

By Michael Jasper Copyright 2023
184 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century architecture. Three formal preoccupations and conceptual orientations are used as guiding threads or trajectories. These three trajectories – the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities – serve to organise individual chapters in... Read more

Continuities  TRAJECTORY I: Conceptual Objects  1. Distancing: De Vore House by Louis I. Kahn  2. Displacements: House II and House IV by Peter Eisenman  3. Overcoming: Diamond Projects by John Hejduk  TRAJECTORY II: Sensation  4. Animate matter: Bryn Mawr College Dormitory by Louis I. Kahn  5. Elastic space: I. M. Pei’s approach to form-space generation  TRAJECTORY III: Time  6. Diagonalities: Visual Arts Center by Le Corbusier  7. Group form: Meeting House and Philadelphia College of Art by Louis I. Kahn  8. Freedom: MAXXI by Zaha Hadid  Discontinuity

Biography

Michael Jasper is Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra. Former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, and former Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, he is the author of Architectural Possibilities in the Work of Eisenman.

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