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Toward an architecture of enjoyment / Henri Lefebvre ; edited by Łukasz Stanek ; translated by Robert Bononno.

By: Lefebvre, Henri 1901-1991, [author.].
Contributor(s): Stanek, Łukasz [editor.] | Bononno, Robert [translator.] | Lefebvre, Henri, Vers une architecture de la jouissance 1901-1991..
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014Description: lix, 190 p. ill.ISBN: 9780816677207 (pb).Uniform titles: Vers une architecture de la jouissance. English Subject(s): Architecture -- Philosophy | Architecture -- Psychological aspects | ARCHITECTURE / General | PHILOSOPHY / General | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / UrbanDDC classification: 720.1
Contents:
Translator's Note -- Introduction: A Manuscript Found in Saragossa / Łukasz Stanek -- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment. The Question -- The Scope of the Inquiry -- The Quest -- Objections -- Philosophy -- Anthropology -- History -- Psychology and Psychoanalysis -- Semantics and Semiology -- Economics -- Architecture -- Conclusion (Injunctions).
Summary: " Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre's influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He 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. Examining architectural examples from the Renaissance to the postwar period, Lefebvre investigates the bodily pleasures of moving in and around buildings and monuments, urban spaces, and gardens and landscapes. He argues that areas dedicated to enjoyment, sensuality, and desire are important sites for a society passing beyond industrial modernization. Lefebvre's theories on space and urbanization fundamentally reshaped the way we understand cities. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment promises a similar impact on how we think about, and live within, architecture. "--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translator's Note -- Introduction: A Manuscript Found in Saragossa / Łukasz Stanek -- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment. The Question -- The Scope of the Inquiry -- The Quest -- Objections -- Philosophy -- Anthropology -- History -- Psychology and Psychoanalysis -- Semantics and Semiology -- Economics -- Architecture -- Conclusion (Injunctions).

" Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre's influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He 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. Examining architectural examples from the Renaissance to the postwar period, Lefebvre investigates the bodily pleasures of moving in and around buildings and monuments, urban spaces, and gardens and landscapes. He argues that areas dedicated to enjoyment, sensuality, and desire are important sites for a society passing beyond industrial modernization. Lefebvre's theories on space and urbanization fundamentally reshaped the way we understand cities. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment promises a similar impact on how we think about, and live within, architecture. "--

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