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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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Main Author: Lefebvre, Henri (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
French
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014
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
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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.
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (lxi, 190 pages))
ISBN:9781452948126