An Architectural Enigma
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Lequeu
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Author : Philippe Duboy
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1987
Lequeu written by Philippe Duboy and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu does in fact hide behind the most enigmatic and controversial smile in the history of art, writes Philippe Duboy in a book that is one of the most tantalizing examples of architectural investigation ever produced. It is an extraordinary compilation - part speculative biography, part meticulous research, with hundreds of intriguing drawings, many in color - that unravels the mystery of this eighteenth-century maverick artist whose drawings have established him variously as a visionary architect associated with Boullee and Ledoux, forerunner of surrealism, and inventor of bad taste. Lequeu's architectural drawings from the legendary portfolios Architecture civile and Nouvelle methode are presented here in their entirety, along with his Lewd Figures, perhaps the oddest feature of the whole collection. The drawings are accompanied by long captions, misspelt and ungrammatical, but written in a flawless bureaucratic hand. The artist's marginalia provide insights into his visions, which seem dominated by an obsession with petrified forms and a recurring preoccupation with sex. Interleaved with the drawings are curious autobiographical papers. And it is here that Duboy's investigation of Lequeu begins to reveal strange clues. He discovers that Lequeu was not an architect at all but a government bureaucrat, a draftsman who ended up living in a brothel. Between the brothel and the obscure office from which he was eventually fired, he produced his encyclopedia of the universe - bizarre portraits of nuns baring their breasts and other lewd figures, and architectural fantasies of vast imaginary cities. Duboy takes his study further, into the realm of Charles Fourier andhis brother-in-law Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and from there to the world of the dadaists, surrealists, and futurists, particularly the circles of Marcel Duchamp and Le Corbusier. He suggests that Duchamp and Raymond Rousell tampered with the Lequeu drawings to concoct a character and oeuvre even more puzzling. There are glimpses of Duchamp's convolutions of mind that will stir a reassessment of his work. Duchamp emerges here, for the first time, as an intrepid and unwavering despiser of Le Corbusier. Twentieth-century reputations are as much at stake in this study as those of the eighteenth-century artist, notes Robin Middleton. Philippe Duboy is Professor of the History of Cities, Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.
An Architectural Enigma
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Author : Philippe Duboy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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"Jean-Jacques Lequeu does in fact hide behind the most enigmatic and controversial smile in the history of art," writes Philippe Duboy in a book that is one of the most tantalizing examples of architectural investigation ever produced.It is an extraordinary compilation - part speculative biography, part meticulous research, with hundreds of intriguing drawings, many in color - that unravels the mystery of this eighteenth-century maverick artist whose drawings have established him variously as a visionary architect associated with Boullee and Ledoux, forerunner of surrealism, and inventor of bad taste.Lequeu's architectural drawings from the legendary portfolios "Architecture civile" and "Nouvelle methode" are presented here in their entirety, along with his "Lewd Figures," perhaps the oddest feature of the whole collection. The drawings are accompanied by long captions, misspelt and ungrammatical, but written in a flawless bureaucratic hand. The artist's marginalia provide insights into his visions, which seem dominated by an obsession with petrified forms and a recurring preoccupation with sex. Interleaved with the drawings are curious autobiographical papers. And it is here that Duboy's investigation of Lequeu begins to reveal strange clues.He discovers that Lequeu was not an architect at all but a government bureaucrat, a draftsman who ended up living in a brothel. Between the brothel and the obscure office from which he was eventually fired, he produced his "encyclopedia of the universe" - bizarre portraits of nuns baring their breasts and other lewd figures, and architectural fantasies of vast imaginary cities.Duboy takes his study further, into the realm of Charles Fourier and his brother-in-law Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and from there to the world of the dadaists, surrealists, and futurists, particularly the circles of Marcel Duchamp and Le Corbusier. He suggests that Duchamp and Raymond Rousell tampered with the Lequeu drawings to concoct a character and oeuvre even more puzzling. There are glimpses of Duchamp's convolutions of mind that will stir a reassessment of his work. "Duchamp emerges here, for the first time, as an intrepid and unwavering despiser of Le Corbusier. Twentieth-century reputations are as much at stake in this study as those of the eighteenth-century artist," notes Robin Middleton.Philippe Duboy is Professor of the History of Cities, Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.
The Iconic Building
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Author : Charles Jencks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Iconic Building written by Charles Jencks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture, Modern categories.
With a mixture of wit, irreverance and sympathy, leading architecture critic Charles Jencks surveys the recent history of the iconic building and then focuses on ten key examples.
L Enigma Di Eurosky The Enigma Of Eurosky
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Author : Claudio Strinati
language : un
Publisher: Gangemi Editore Spa
Release Date : 2014-10-08
L Enigma Di Eurosky The Enigma Of Eurosky written by Claudio Strinati and has been published by Gangemi Editore Spa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-08 with Architecture categories.
Volume n. 4 della collana ARCHITETTURA ENIGMATICA diretta da Ruggero Lenci Questo numero della collana editoriale architettura enigmatica si occupa della lettura critica della Torre Eurosky, con il fine di disvelare la genesi progettuale di quest'opera significativa e le ragioni di alcune vicende legate alla sua esecuzione, evitando da un lato facili lusinghe, dall'altro critiche chiassose, in ogni caso mantenendo una lettura il più possibile oggettiva e priva di reticenze in merito ai fenomeni architettonici e di impianto urbano analizzati. La collana editoriale “architettura enigmatica” si occupa di individuare e svelare aspetti comunicativi e prestazionali – funzioni seconde e funzioni prime – non del tutto apparenti in quelle opere di architettura nelle quali coesistono in modo indissolubile, andando ad analizzare non solo il risultato finale ma anche il percorso creativo che ne ha generato la realizzazione. Il metodo è quello dell'ipotesi-tesi, che può venire o meno avvalorata e che nei casi in dubbio è considerata degna di condivisione e dibattito. Non interessa qui compiere né lusinghieri elogi né stroncature dell'opera in esame, ma ipotizzare che l'architettura selezionata sia come un paziente che si presta di buon grado a un consulto medico e/o a un intervento sul tavolo operatorio. Ma tale metafora può chiamare in causa altre discipline, prima tra tutte la psicologia, dato che ci interessa comprendere il più possibile quali sono le tensioni presenti nell'universo creativo dei progettisti che hanno concepito l'opera. La scaturigine del progetto e lo stormo delle sue idee primigenie sono qui investigate tramite ipotesi aperte, con calviniana – ma talvolta anche kunderiana – leggerezza, una qualità che non esclude mai il contraddittorio. Cosí come nella casa del girasole, anche nell'eurosky la leggerezza, come sopra intesa, è una qualità dell'architettura che si vuole far riconoscere e che lotta per tale scopo: nel primo caso taglia – in un periodo coevo a fontana – la solidissima massa rocciosa del volume della palazzina di viale bruno buozzi e anticipa “la dolce vita” felliniana; nel secondo caso dà luogo a un colossale trilite di una stonehenge euratica sul quale spuntano in copertura le fragili ali del suo opposto: le pagine di un libro di cui tale dolmen si fa immenso ambone. Altri volumi pubblicati nella collana editoriale architettura enigmatica: 1 L'enigma del girasole (2012) 2 L'estate romana di Renato Nicolini (2013) 3 Il Divenire dell'europa (2013) N. 4 volume of ENIGMATIC ARCHITECTURE series directed by Ruggero Lenci The Eurosky Tower, designed by Franco Purini and Laura Thermes in the centrality EUR-Castellaccio in Rome started from the union of two symmetrical towers, in many respects autonomous: a dolmen that on the roof performs liberating and propitiatory exploits. The ontogeny of Eurosky, recapitulates phylogeny of a series of projects delivered to the history of contemporary architecture. In the first place the constructivist Horizontal Skyscrapers for the center of Moscow, designed in 1924 by El Lissitzky, also called “Irons for the clouds”. But in it is also possible to find futurist images by Antonio Sant'Elia, those of Hugh Ferriss, as well as the ones of BBPR of the Velasca Tower. The editorial series “Enigmatic Architecture” is interested in identifying and unveil aspects of communication and functional performance – second and first functions – not entirely apparent in those works of architecture in which they coexist in an indissoluble way, not only in the final result but also in the creative itinerary that led to the act of their creation. The method is the one of hypothesis-thesis, which can be corroborated or not, and that in presence of doubt is considered worthy of sharing and discussion. There is no interest here in making flattering praises nor slating of the analized work, but to assume that the selected piece of architecture is like a patient who, willingly, lends to a medical consultation and/or to an intervention on the surgical table. But this metaphor can be extended to other disciplines, first of all psychology, as we are interested to understand as much as possible which are the tensions in the creative universe of the designers who conceived the work. The wellspring of the project, i.e. the covey of primitive ideas, are here investigated by open hypotheses, non-opinionated, with Calvinian – but sometimes also Kunderian – lightness, a quality that never excludes the cross-examination. As well as in the “Sunflower”, also in Eurosky the lightness, as above intended, is an architectural quality that aims at being recognized and that struggles for this purpose: in the first case it cuts – in a period coeval to Fontana – the solid rocky-mass of the volume of the palazzina in viale Bruno Buozzi in Rome and anticipates the Fellinean “Dolce Vita”; in the second case it gives rise to a colossal trilith of a Stonehenge in the E.U.R. district on whose roof sprout the fragile wings of its opposite: the pages of a book of which this dolmen becomes an immense pulpit. Other volumes published in the editorial series Enigmatic Architecture: 1 The enigma of the Sunflower (2012) 2 The Roman Summer of Renato Nicolini (2013) 3 The Europe's Become (2013)
New York City
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Author : Francisco Javier Rencoret
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1991
New York City written by Francisco Javier Rencoret and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
Over 70 color paintings and accompanying text explore myths embedded in the architecture and design of New York City. The futuristic images exaggerate the features into a surreal dreamscape. No index or bibliography. Available from Princeton Architectural Press, Inc., 37 East Seventh Street, New York, NY 10003. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc.
Le Queu
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Author : Philippe Duboy
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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The Java Enigma
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Author : Erni Salleh
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2020
The Java Enigma written by Erni Salleh and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Fiction categories.
Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize After missing her father’s funeral, Irin Omar finds her orderly librarian life with the Borobudur restoration project turned upside down as she inherits a safe deposit box containing an unknown item as part of her father’s will. Chasing answers across Asia and Europe, her historical knowledge and love for her father persists as she tries to uncover some of the archipelago’s biggest hidden secrets while discovering a few familial skeletons of her own. Reader Reviews: "A well-written, a kind of Southeast Asian Da Vinci Code-type mystery … with a degree of scholarly detail all through the narrative." — Professor Rajeev S. Patke, director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College "The Java Enigma presents itself as a rather singular literary work for its boldness in putting Southeast Asian history at the fore, certainly able to spur new interest in readers that pick this book up." —bakchormeeboy "With so much colourful and eclectic history on Singapore's doorstep, I have often wondered why a code-cracking historical adventure hasn't been written about the region. Finally, The Java Enigma has plugged the gap. With a splash of Dan Brown and a quirky dash of Indiana Jones, Erni Salleh has written a globe-trotting, treasure-hunting thriller that is a fascinating read from start to finish.” —Neil Humphreys, bestselling author of Marina Bay Sins “A riveting read of archaeological and historical mystery. The Java Enigma takes you on a journey across Southeast Asia and into the hidden depths of the monuments, languages and cultures of the Old Malay World—all while unravelling the inherent interconnections in and among them, and in a way, among us all.” —Nuraliah Norasid, award-winning author of The Gatekeeper
The Oval Ballroom Fayetteville North Carolina
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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New Zealand S Rural Enigma
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Author : Isaac Sweetapple
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
New Zealand S Rural Enigma written by Isaac Sweetapple and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture and society categories.
New Zealand's Rural Enigma searches for ways in which bucolic idealisations of rural New Zealand can be architecturally scrutinised, observed and redefined. The thesis interrogates how architecture can manipulate perceptions of the rural by identifying sites of discontent and reinterpreting how they are communicated and discussed within architectural discourse. New Zealand's Rural Enigma is a series of five episodes that requires their latent observers to implicate themselves. The work - an installation of five cardboard boxes employing shadow boxes, collage and architectural drawings - is intended to be accessible to a nonexclusive public. It plays dumb and embraces its DIY quality. Posing as a collection of makeshift screens, the boxes question ways in which an architectural investigation is presented, explored and understood by both its 'creator' and its audience. The materials and methods implemented allow New Zealand's Rural Enigma to negotiate the past, present and future through a series of curated capsules of 21st century consumer culture. Here the place of architecture in rural New Zealand is presented as a pervasive, continuous relationship between the commercialisation and consumption of space. Rather than solving problems, each episode of New Zealand's Rural Enigma unearths the unknown knowns potently present within the architecture of the rural. This architectural exploration of New Zealand's regions through absurd spatial adaptations promotes architectural conflicts and exposes latent truths that offer a humble, sardonic reflection upon the rural that New Zealanders have long admired and disdained but continue to construct.
The Parthenon Enigma
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Author : Joan Breton Connelly
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-01-28
The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with History categories.
Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.