Overview

A unique perspective on how to understand, and even create, meaningful architecture. The Architect’s Dream demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. Sean Pickersgill draws on a broad range of subject areas, including film, philosophy, anthropology, mathematics, and economics, to show that the path to meaningful creative practice is always based on an understanding of the principal drivers for change in society. The Architect’s Dream is not a recipe book for others to reproduce; rather, it requires the engaged reader to use their own creative abilities to find the potential in each proposition, and it will encourage the scholastic architect to continue to mine the rich veins of intellectual culture to demonstrate the hidden purposiveness inherent in all meaningful architecture.  

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Author:   Sean Pickersgill
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781789387407

ISBN 10:   178938740
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   09 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

            Introduction: Architects Must Dream        1: The Mutability of Objects      Proposition 1: The Large Glass      Proposition 2: Inside the Box        Proposition 3: Life’s Harvest         Proposition 4: Site Cycle   2: Memory        Proposition 5: Calvino’s City of Memory    Proposition 6: The Machine of History      Proposition 7:  Redemptive Objects          Proposition 8:  Borges’s Library    3: Reflective/Reflexive   Proposition 9:  Glass and Glas      Proposition 10:  No City   Proposition 11:  No Interior          Proposition 12: No Form  4: War  Proposition 13: Conflict    Proposition 14: Healing    Proposition 15: Hygiene   5: Language      Proposition 16: Language Proposition 17: Ecological Symbiosis         Proposition 18: Flat Out   6: Destruction   Proposition 19: Fire         Proposition 20: Plato’s Cave         Proposition 21: Earth       Proposition 22: Clouds     Proposition 23: Perversions          7: Measure       Proposition 24: Money    Proposition 25: Wittgenstein        Proposition 26: Contractual Obligation     Proposition 27: Life          8: Site   Proposition 28: Site Affectivity/Transgressions      Proposition 29: Highway  Proposition 30: High Way Proposition 31: Manufactured      Proposition 32: Other Ecologies   9: Fidelity         Proposition 33: Synaesthetic        Proposition 34: Fidelity    Proposition 35: Non-Euclidean     10: Melancholy Proposition 36: Soap        Proposition 37: Shopping Proposition 38: Working Models  Proposition 39: Odysseus 11: Metamorphosis       Proposition 40: Metamorphosis   Proposition 41: Bestiary   Proposition 42: Kennels   Proposition 43: Mechanization Takes Command   12: Fiction        Proposition 44: Future Archaeology          Proposition 45: Dreams   Proposition 46: Doppelgänger      Proposition 47: Cinema    Proposition 48: The Puzzle           13: Crime          Proposition 49: Forgeries Proposition 50: Detectives           Proposition 51: TV Eye     Proposition 52: Punishment         Proposition 53: Cannibalism         14: Surface       Proposition 54: Knots       Proposition 55: Collage    Proposition 56: Discotheque        Proposition 57: Sfumato  15: Hope          Proposition 58: Hope       Proposition 59: Tractatus Proposition 60: Trust       Afterword         Constant Gardening         Bibliography     Index   

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Dr Sean Pickersgill is a senior architectural academic within UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia. He has published widely on the intersection of architecture, digital culture and philosophy.

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