Overview
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, the first publication of Henri Lefebvre's only book devoted to architecture, redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. Lefebvre calls for an architecture of jouissance-of pleasure or enjoyment-centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses.
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Author: Henri Lefebvre ,
Łukasz Stanek ,
Robert Bononno
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.299kg
ISBN: 9780816677207
ISBN 10: 0816677204
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 21 June 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Stanek's work has already taken scholarship on Henri Lefebvre's concept of space to an unprecedented level of philosophical sophistication. With the discovery of this new text, Stanek escorts Lefebvre to the center of architecture theory since 1968. Lefebvre's conceptual text and Stanek's exquisite Introduction together enable the possibility of thinking not about architecture, but thinking architecturally about how we inhabit our world. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment takes us toward a concept of the architectural imagination that is a powerful mediator between thought and action. --K. Michael Hays, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Stanek's work has already taken scholarship on Henri Lefebvre's concept of space to an unprecedented level of philosophical sophistication. With the discovery of this new text, Stanek escorts Lefebvre to the center of architecture theory since 1968. Lefebvre's conceptual text and Stanek's exquisite Introduction together enable the possibility of thinking not about architecture, but thinking architecturally about how we inhabit our world. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment takes us toward a concept of the architectural imagination that is a powerful mediator between thought and action. --K. Michael Hays, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Stanek's work has already taken scholarship on Henri Lefebvre s concept of space to an unprecedented level of philosophical sophistication. With the discovery of this new text, Stanek escorts Lefebvre to the center of architecture theory since 1968. Lefebvre s conceptual text and Stanek s exquisite Introduction together enable the possibility of thinking not about architecture, but thinking architecturally about how we inhabit our world. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment takes us toward a concept of the architectural imagination that is a powerful mediator between thought and action. K. Michael Hays, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Author Information
Henri Lefebvre (19011991) was a Marxist philosopher and sociologist. His many books includeThe Right to the City, The Production of Space, Everyday Life in the Modern World,andThe Urban Revolution(Minnesota, 2003). ukasz Stanek is lecturer at the Manchester Architecture Centre, University of Manchester, and the author ofHenri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory(Minnesota, 2011). Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New York City. His recent translations includeSpeech Begins after Deathby Michel Foucault (Minnesota, 2013) andCosmopolitics IandIIby Isabelle Stengers (Minnesota, 201011).
