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Architecture and Modern Literature
Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era
The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City
This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary scholars, and social scientists, but graphic novelists and artists, the book offers contemporary essays on everything from science fiction and the crime novel, to poetry, comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History, Narrative and Genre, and Strategy, Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations, the book is a must read for academics and students.
Reading Architecture
Reading Architecture shows that imagining people's lives is more important for architects than imagining spaces. Reading stories about lives lived in buildings, places, and cities is the best way to learn how to imagine. These eighteen new essays from contributors in nine countries on three continents talk about how novels and poems can help you think about architecture, urban spaces, research, and practice. Stories discussed include those by Dinos Christianopoulos, E.M. Forster, Zia Haider Rahman, Knut Hamsun, Nguyên Huy Thiêp, Laslo Krasznahorkai, Chung-hee Moon, Haruki Murakami, Fernando Pessoa, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and W.G. Sebald, among others. Includes 40 black and white images.
Writingplace
"Writingplace: investigations in architecture and literature marks a step forward in an emerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on written language as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary methods in architectural and urban research, education and design"--Back cover.
Literary Architecture
Includes a chapter on Proust.
Writing the Modern City
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the world today. This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably ‘modern’ identities. It focuses on the cultural connections between prose narratives – th...
Architecture
Dana Cuff delves into the architect's everyday world in "Architecture" to uncover an intricate social art of design, resulting in a new portrait of the profession that sheds light on what it means to become an architect.
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.
Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrou...
