A Topology of Everyday Constellations
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2013
Summary
The threshold as both boundary and bridge- investigations of spaces, public and private, local and global.Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres-the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518321 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518325 |
| Author: | Georges Teyssot |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Writing Architecture |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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A Topology of Everyday Constellations opens the reader up for a profound discussion, initiating the process to reconsider what it means to dwell and how our physical appliances reconfigure our lives. Another thought-provoking result of The MIT Press’ Writing Architecture series, Teyssot’s discourse is disturbingly, seductively complex.
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Georges Teyssot
Georges Teyssot, Professor in the School of Architecture at Laval University, Quebec, has taught the history and theory of architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura of Venice, Princeton University’s School of Architecture, and the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He is the author or editor of many books, including Interior Landscapes and The American Lawn.
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