CONTENTS List of illustration credits ix Preface xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction1 Part One:Foundations 17 1. The Parthenon and the Erechtheion: the spatial formation of place, politics and myth 19 2 Invisible surface: reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion 43 Part Two:Architecture and Narrative in Literature 65 3 The book and the labyrinth were one and the same': narrative and architecture in Borges' fictions 67 4(Th)reading the Library: spatial and mathematical journeys in Borges' Library of Babel 89 Part Three:Spatial and Narrative Interactions 109 5Soane through the looking-glass: the house-museum of Sir John Soane 111 6Victorian knowledge: the Natural History Museum, London and the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow 137 7 Contemporary experience: the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow 161 8Tracing the modern: space, display and exploration in the Museum of Modern Art, New York 185 Part Four:Theoretical Synthesis 211 9Comparative discussion 213 10 The formation of space and cultural meaning 233 Notes 251 Bibliography 266 Index 278