TY  - BOOK
AU  - Psarra, Sophia
TI  - Architecture and narrative : the formation of space and cultural meaning
SN  - 0415343763
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
N1  - 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
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