Research Catalog

Title

The rule and the model : on the theory of architecture and urbanism / Françoise Choay ; edited by Denise Bratton.

Author

Choay, Françoise.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Bratton, Denise.

Description

500 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Règle et le modèle. English

Alternative Title

Règle et le modèle.

Subjects

• City planning > Philosophy
• Architecture > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-484) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: The Choice of Words -- Texts as Realizers. The De Re Aedificatoria, Inaugural text. The Communal Edicts and the Fate of Their Argumentation. The Pseudo-Treatises of the Renaissance and the Classical Age -- True and False Utopias. The Utopia of Thomas More, Inaugural Text. After Utopia. From Theleme to Clarens. From the Nova Atlantis to Contemporary Futurology. Rhetorical Utopias -- Texts as Commentators. The Objectification of Urban Space. Commentaries for and Against the City -- The Architecture of the De Re Aedificatoria -- A Theory of Edification -- The Beautiful and Its Antinomies -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Or Supra-structural Borrowing -- Alberti and Vitruvius: Narratives and Histories in the De Re Aedificatoria -- The Architect-Hero -- Model Space and Spatial Model: A Phenomenological Approach. Portrait Space and Model Space. A Universalizable Device. Model and Eternity. The Pharmakon -- The Mirror Stage and the Utopian Stage -- The Mythic Construction --
• More and Plato -- More and the Problematics of the Renaissance -- The Fate of the Architectural Treatises. The First Generation. The Vitruvianizing Regression. Two Exceptions: The Treatises of Perrault and Scamozzi -- The Resistance of the Utopian Figure. The Reductive Utopia of Morelly. The Canonic Utopia: Sinapia and Hyperspatialization -- Science and Utopia Versus the Architectural Treatise: The Fragmented Treatise of Patte -- Pre-Urbanism -- The Teoria as Paradigm. Scientific and Scientific Discourse. Medicalization and Utopia. The Dominance of the Morean Figure: The Pseudo-Albertian Traits. The Work of the I of the Trattatisto -- Other Theories: From Sitte to Alexander. Scientific Discourse: Simulations and Realities. The Predominance of the Signs of Utopia. The Pseudo-Albertian Traits. Variations on the I of the Trattatisto. Ouverture: From Words to Things -- Analysis of the Construction of the De Re Aedificatoria -- The Corpus of Instaurational Texts --
• References Beyond The Corpus.

ISBN

0262032260 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95038793

OCLC

• 503262634
• ocn503262634

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries