The architectural capriccio : memory, fantasy and invention /: memory, fantasy and invention. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited] by Lucien Steil.
• Other Names: Steil, Lucien
• Contents: Contents: Foreword: Capriccio: the efficacy of spatial narrative, Michael Graves; Preface: The Architectual Capriccio: memory, fantasy, invention, Lucien Steil; Introduction, Alireza Sagharchi; ’Il Capriccio’, definition of the capriccio (caprice) in the French Larousse dictionary, trans. Julie Kleinman; Meaning and purpose of the Capriccio, David Mayernik; The poietic image, Samir Younés; The Capricci of Giovanni Paolo Panini, David Mayernik; Patronage in the golden age of the Capriccio, Selena Anders; The grand tour, Lucien Steil; Capriccio: the leap of the goat or the unexpected, Jose Cornelio da Silva; Metaphors for a political urban landscape: Schinkel’s Capricci of a ’new Athens-on-the-Spree’, Jean-François Lejeune; J.M. Gandy’s composite views for John Soane, William Palin; American Capriccio: imaginary architecture in 19th-century painting, Gail Leggio; The Capricci of Carl Laubin, David Watkin; Symmetria and ethics, the didactic Capriccio, David Ligare; Settings: Emily Allchurch and the old masters, Xavier Bray and Minna Moore Ede; Massimo Scolari, Leon Krier; Drawing, Leon Krier; Capriccio, Leon Krier; 'Imago Luxemburgi', Leon Krier; The Capriccio and poetical realism, Lucien Steil; Urban chiaroscuro (after Piranesi): behind the scenes, Emily Allchurch; Sublime architecture: capricci in sketchbook and paintings, Lucien Steil; Le Corbusier’s eye and the vanishing point of modernity, David Brain; The architectural project, an homage to Rob Krier, Lucien Steil; 'La citta analoga': thoughts on the urban Capriccio for the design of real cities, Pier Carlo Bontempi; Magical realism in Miami, Javier Cenicaceleya; A very British Capriccio, Alireza Sagharchi; Building the Capriccio, Robert Adam; Capricci capricciosi, Ettore Maria Mazzola; The double nature of the architectural Capriccio: from pictorial fiction to urban reality, Jean Dethier; Postface: 'techne' and technology, Lucien Steil; The aura of the computer generated image: or virtuosity and
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (548 pages)
• Subjects: 704.944; ARCHITECTURE / History / General; Architecture in art; Fantastic architecture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351894708; 1351894706
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