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Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum, through early Renaissance subjects such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture, through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from 17th-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the spatial poetics of architecture by invoking other artistic disciplines. Essays in this group include a discussion of the accomplishments of Gordon Matta-Clark, a reading of Alfred Hitchcock's ""Rear Window"", and an analysis of the implications of ethical/formal questions for architecture in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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"""The Chora series constitutes an original, necessary, and very important enterprise in the field of the critical history of architecture. The authors interpretations in a wide variety of subjects and themes contribute to an essential renewal in our appreciation for history and theory of architecture."" Myriam Blais, Ecole d'architecture, Universite Laval /// ""This collection continues the tradition of supplying new, interesting research for the community of theoreticians, historians, and practitioners interested in exploring alternative connections."" Don Kunze, Architecture and Integrative Arts, Penn State University"

The Chora series constitutes an original, necessary, and very important enterprise in the field of the critical history of architecture. The authors interpretations in a wide variety of subjects and themes contribute to an essential renewal in our appreciation for history and theory of architecture. Myriam Blais, Ecole d'architecture, Universite Laval /// This collection continues the tradition of supplying new, interesting research for the community of theoreticians, historians, and practitioners interested in exploring alternative connections. Don Kunze, Architecture and Integrative Arts, Penn State University

""The Chora series constitutes an original, necessary, and very important enterprise in the field of the critical history of architecture. The authors interpretations in a wide variety of subjects and themes contribute to an essential renewal in our appreciation for history and theory of architecture."" Myriam Blais, Ecole d'architecture, Universite Laval /// ""This collection continues the tradition of supplying new, interesting research for the community of theoreticians, historians, and practitioners interested in exploring alternative connections."" Don Kunze, Architecture and Integrative Arts, Penn State University

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Alberto Pérez-Gómez is the author of Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics, co-editor of the Chora series, and Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor and director, post-professional graduate program, architecture, McGill University. Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University, and co-editor of Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture.

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