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Toward an architecture of enjoyment
The French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre meditates on the relationship between jouissance, space, and architecture. Commissioned as a part of a study on tourist new towns in Spain, the book identifies spaces devoted to pleasure, enjoyment, sensuality, and desire as sites where t...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
, 2014
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816677191.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Henri Lefebvre ; edited by Łukasz Stanek ; translated by Robert Bononno |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture |
| Summary: | The French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre meditates on the relationship between jouissance, space, and architecture. Commissioned as a part of a study on tourist new towns in Spain, the book identifies spaces devoted to pleasure, enjoyment, sensuality, and desire as sites where the possibilities for a society moving beyond Fordism are manifested. In order to study these possibilities, architecture needs to be redefined as a mode of imagination rather than being restricted to a specialised practice or a collection of monuments. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (lxi, 190 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9781452948126 |
