Conscience of the Eye the design and social life of cities
Publication details: 1992 New York W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.Description: xiv,266,ipISBN:- 0393308782
- 307.76 SEN
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Architecture | 307.76 SEN | Available | Bill No.c-7190 Dt.28/02/14 $21.95 | 012230 |
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Conscience of the Eye xi
PART ONE
Interior Shadows
chapter 1 The Refuge
Inner and Outer
Building the Wall between Inner and Outer
The Modern Fear of Exposure
Spaces of Authority
chapter 2 The Neutral City
Nowhere The Grid The Spiritual Quest Is No Longer a Heroic Struggle 41
PART TWO
The Eye
Searches for Unity
chapter 3 The Open Window of the Eighteenth Century
The Haw-Haw Civilization or Culture The Square of Nature 71
PART THREE
The Humane City
PART FOUR
The Art of Exposure
chapter 4 The Unexpected
Consequences of Visual Unity 97
Sympathy and the Sublime The Technology of Unity An Architect of the Sublime The Religion of Art
chapter 5 Exposure 121
In the Presence of Difference An Exile's Knowledge The Stranger's Knowledge
chapter 6 Streets Full of Life
Invention and Discovery The Obelisks of Sixtus V Fourteenth Street
chapter 7 Places Full of Time
Le Corbusier and Leger in New York Fortune's Machines Time's Walls and Borders
chapter 8 Making Exposed Things 205
The I and the It The Art of Mutations Sympathy and Empathy
chapter 9 Centering Oneself 237
The Two Bodies of Apollo Mark Rothko's Chapel Balanchine's Apollo
Index 253
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