TY - GEN AU - Frascari, Marco TI - Marco frascari's dream house : a theory of imagination SN - 9781138189652 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures xi Notes on contributors xix Acknowledgements xxiii List of abbreviations xx Introduction 1 Federica Goffi Panta Rhei: in the Drawn and Written Lines of the "Dream House" 1 Reading Drawings: A "Science Without a Name" 10 Notes 20 1. A Congenial Inauguration 25 MARCO FRASCARI The Magic Meal 26 The Ingredients 29 Notes 35 2. Telling and Casting MARCO FRASCARI The Requirements of the Play 41 The Incubation 45 Notes 49 3. The Importance of Dreaming in Architecture 52 MARCO FRASCARI The Magic Threshold 53 A Mantic View 57 The Magic of Translation 64 The Trade 67 Notes 71 4. The Origin and Beginning of the Dream House 73 MARCO FRASCARI The Practice of Dreaming 76 Description of the Design of the House-Tower 79 Notes 81 5. The Present Architecture Smells Bad 83 MARCO FRASCARI Vita Beata 84 The Happiness of Bathroom Imagination 84 Notes 92 6. The Analogical Monster 95 The Drawings of the House-Tower 97 The Recto and the Verso 98 Notes 99 Conclusions MARCO FRASCARI Dream Long and hard Enough 101 Notes 102 Portfolio : Drawings, Model and Sketchbooks for the House-Tower 103 Postscript Interview with Claudio Sgarbi 182 Federica Goffi and Claudio Sgarbi Oneiric Recollections of a Design 182 Index 204 ER -