Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christian Parreno.
• Authors: Parreno, Christian
• Contents: List of IllustrationsPrefaceForeword by Iain BordenAcknowledgements Introduction: Boredom as Architecture 1. A Component of Modernity Differential Distances2. Fascination and Aversion 3. Søren Kierkegaard's Babylonian Tower 4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness 5. Blunting and Jading6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures Circular Trajectories7. A Unity of Disarray 8. Martin Heidegger's Urge to Be at Home9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom 10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion 11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough Extended Thresholds12. Potential Architectures13. Andrew Benjamin's Antithesis to Boredom14. Boredom in Domus15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk 16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow Epilogue: Architectures of Boredom BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: Architecture -- Criticism; Theory of architecture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350148154; 1350148156
• Related ISBNs: 9781350148130
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