(H/B) THE ARCHITECTURAL CAPRICCIO

Παρουσίαση

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover, demonstrates its contemporary validity and appropriateness as a holistic design methodology, an inspiring pictorial strategy, an efficient rendering technique and an optimal didactic tool. The book shows and comments on a wide range of historic masterworks and highlights contemporary artists and architects excelling in a modern updated, refreshed and original tradition of the Capriccio. The capacity of the Capriccio to create an imaginary, imagined or 'analogue' reality by combining and relocating existing or invented buildings and places in uniquely suggestive drawings and paintings offers unprecedented insights in the 'Architectural Mind'.
Unlike what the word Capriccio might suggest, it is not 'capricious' but indeed follows complex rules of realism and figuration, as well as coherent narratives and semantics. It is a playful reflection of the dialectics of the real and the ideal. The Capriccio does not challenge the mechanism of reality, but questions the mechanic and linear reading of the real, of life and of art and offers a large palette of threads, figures, tones and nuances to illustrate and contribute creatively to the complexity of a sustainable built and living architectural environment. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Foreword: Capriccio: The Efficacy of Spatial Narrative by Michael Graves
Preface: The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy, Invention by Lucien Steil
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Alireza Sagharchi
"Il Capriccio": Definition of the Capriccio (Caprice) in the French Larousse Dictionary, Translation from French by Julie Kleinman
Meaning and Purpose of the Capriccio, David Mayernik
The Poietic Image, Samir Younes
The Capricci of Giovanni Paolo Panini, David Mayernik
Patronage in the Golden Age of the Capriccio, Selena Anders
The Grand Tour, Lucien Steil
Capriccio, the Leap of the Goat or the Unexpected, Jose Cornelio da Silva
Metaphors for a Political Urban Landscape: Schinkel's Capricci of a New "Athens-on-the-Spree", Jean-Francois Lejeune
J.M. Gandy's Composite Views for John Soane, William Palin
American Capriccio: Imaginary Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Painting, Gail Leggio
The Capricci of Carl Laubin, David Watkin
Symmetria and Ethics, the Didactic Capriccio, David Ligare
Settings: Emily Allchurch and the Old Masters, Xavier Bray and Minna Moore Ede
Massimo Scolari, Leon Krier
Drawing, Leon Krier
Capriccio, Leon Krier
"Imago Luxemburgi", Leon Krier
The Capriccioand Poetical Realism, Lucien Steil
Urban Chiaroscuro (after Piranesi): Behind the Scenes, Emily Allchurch
Sublime Architecture: Capricci in Sketchbook and Paintings, Lucien Steil
Le Corbusier's Eye and the Vanishing Point of Modernity, David Brain
The Architectural Project: An Homage to Rob Krier, Lucien Steil
"La Citta Analoga": Thoughts on the Urban Capriccio for the Design of Real Cities, Pier Carlo Bontempi
Magical Realism in Miami, Javier Cenicacelaya
A Very British Capriccio, Alireza Sagharchi
Building the Capriccio, Robert Adam
Capricci Capricciosi, Ettore Maria Mazzola
The Double Nature of the Architectural Capriccio: From Pictorial Fiction to Urban Reality, Jean Dethier
Postface: "Techne" and Technology, Lucien Steil
The Aura of the Computer Generated Image: Or, Virtuosity and the Cult of the Artifact, Dialog between Alireza Sagharchi and Gil Gorski
Index