Deplazes, Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures
Andrea Deplazes “Constructing Architecture” describes that architectural Only in conjunction with a concept does a vigorous position of architects which makes it possible for them ...
Continue Reading →Corbin, Temple and Contemplation
Temple and Contemplation brings together for the first time in English five of Professor Corbin’s lectures, which were originally delivered at sessions of the Eranos ...
Continue Reading →Benjamin, The Translator’s Task
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and ...
Continue Reading →Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and ...
Continue Reading →Serres, Angels, A Modern Myth
In this new work Michel Serres, France’s foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of ...
Continue Reading →Mattie, Architectural Competitions: 1792-Today
The rules governing competitions also vary enormously. It was the Institute of British Architects which first laid down guidelines in the 1830’s, formalising them in ...
Continue Reading →Cicero, On Old Age, On Friendship, On Divination
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring ...
Continue Reading →Langer, Feeling and Form
In Philosophy in a New Key, Susanne Langer developed a theory of symbolism, there applied to music, which she felt could be developed to embrace ...
Continue Reading →Belting, Florence and Baghdad
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point ...
Continue Reading →Basar, Coupland, Obrist, The Extreme Self
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the re-making of your ...
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