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Beschreibung
Adopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts in architecture, this book pries open new interpretations in Kafka scholarship. Each of eight chapters takes up an architectural element with which to explore meanings central to both literature and architecture.
Stairs function as vertical access but in Kafka's hands become an instrument of science, testing the merit of natural selection. Kafka's doors open and close less to allow passage than to reconcile one psychological interior with the next. Notions of plumbing and hygiene begin to acquire new meaning.
The architecture of Mies van der Rohe begins to make more sense, especially his tabula rasa approach to design, signifying less a harsh disdain for site and more a response to a reality in which the ceremony of the stairs had died and was replaced by the pervasive flatness of the modern floor.
Adopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts in architecture, this book pries open new interpretations in Kafka scholarship. Each of eight chapters takes up an architectural element with which to explore meanings central to both literature and architecture.
Stairs function as vertical access but in Kafka's hands become an instrument of science, testing the merit of natural selection. Kafka's doors open and close less to allow passage than to reconcile one psychological interior with the next. Notions of plumbing and hygiene begin to acquire new meaning.
The architecture of Mies van der Rohe begins to make more sense, especially his tabula rasa approach to design, signifying less a harsh disdain for site and more a response to a reality in which the ceremony of the stairs had died and was replaced by the pervasive flatness of the modern floor.
Über den Autor
Ayad B. Rahmani is a professor of architecture at Washington State University. He has written widely on the subjects of art, architecture and urban design. He lives in Pullman, Washington.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1.¿Windows

2.¿Restless Doors

3.¿Up and Down Stairs

4.¿Rooms and the Question of Return

5.¿The Home as an Agent of Shock

6.¿In the Belly of the Ship: A Demonstration of Machine Power and Labor Relations

7.¿The Radicalization of Perspective: "In the Penal Colony"

8.¿By Way of a Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780786476534
ISBN-10: 0786476532
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rahmani, Ayad B.
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Ayad B. Rahmani
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.2014
Gewicht: 0,402 kg
Artikel-ID: 133439959

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