CONTENTS
Introduction 9
Part 1 - Initiation
1.Synchronisation of the Senses 27
Rhythms of the Body 27
Scale 29
Music 30
Light 32
Colour 35
Sensory Stimulation 35
Conclusion 39
2. The Evocation of Space and Time 41
Perspective 41
Framing 49
Resistance 50
Time and Progress 54
Conclusion 58
3. Ordering Initiation 61
Rhetoric 63
Montage 68
Transcending Time 69
Orphic Initiation 71
The Alchemical Journey 74
The Oracle of the Holy Bottle 76
La Sainte Baume 77
Conclusion 81
Part 2 - Solid Words: The Rhetoric of Architecture
4. Elements of the Architectural Promenade 85
Threshold or Introduction 85
Sensitising Vestibule 90
Questioning - savoir habiter 92
Reorientation 92
Culmination 100
Conclusion 100
5. The Jacob's Ladder Type Promenade 103
MAISON LA ROCHE 1923-24 103
Threshold 105
Sensitising Vestibule 106
Questioning - savoir habiter 108
Reorientation 111
Culmination 112
Summary 112
VILLA SAV0YE 1929-31 114
Threshold 114
Sensitising Vestibule 118
Questioning - savoir habiter 119
Reorientation 122
Culmination 122
Summary 125
Conclusion 126
6. Overlapping Narratives of Domestic Space 129
PENTHOUSE, FLAT 7, 24 RUE NUNGESSER ET C0LI 1933 129
Threshold 130
Sensitising Vestibule 132
Questioning - savoir habiter 132
Reorientation 139
Culmination 139
Summary 142
MAISON JA0UL B 1955-57 144
Threshold 146
Sensitising Vestibule 146
Questioning - savoir habiter 146
Reorientation 153
Culmination 154
Summary 156
Conclusion 156
7. Complex Narratives of Public Life 159
USINE DUVAL 1946-51 159
Threshold 161
Sensitising Vestibule 161
Questioning - savoir habiter 163
Reorientation 164
Culmination 166
Summary 168
MAISON DU BRESIL 1957-59 171
Threshold 171
Sensitising Vestibule 174
Questioning - savoir habiter 1 JQ
Reorientation 184
Summary 184
LA TOURETTE 1956-59 186
Threshold 188
Sensitising Vestibule 188
Questioning - savoir habiter 191
Summary 203
Conclusion 204
Conclusion 207
Appendix 213
Selected Bibliography Index 219
Illustration Credits 223