Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture

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Hubert Damisch (Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Social) Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union)

Noah's Ark

Essays on Architecture

Hubert Damisch (Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Social), Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union), Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor, The Cooper Union) , Julie Rose

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MIT Press
12 February 2016

Theory of architecture; History of architecture

Series: Writing Architecture

From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's ""Blur"" Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.

Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a ""displaced philosopher,"" Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to ""think architecture in a different key,"" as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides ""an open series of structural models,"" Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. He leads the reader from Jean-Fran ois Blondel to Eug ne Viollet-le-Duc to Mies van der Rohe to Diller + Scofidio, with stops along the way at the Temple of Jerusalem, Vitruvius's De Architectura, and the Louvre. In the title essay, Damisch moves easily from Diderot's Encylopedie to Noah's Ark (discussing the provisioning, access, floor plan) to the Pan American Building to Le Corbusier to Ground Zero. Noah's Ark marks the origin of construction, and thus of architecture itself. Diderot's Encylopedie entry on architecture followed his entry on Noah's Ark; architecture could only find its way after the Flood.

In these thirteen essays, written over a span of forty years, Damisch takes on other histories and theories of architecture to trace a unique trajectory of architectural structure and thought. The essays are, as Vidler says, ""a set of exercises"" in thinking about architecture.

By: Hubert Damisch (Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art École des Hautes Études en Sciences Social)
Introduction by: Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor The Cooper Union)
Edited by: Anthony Vidler (Dean and Professor The Cooper Union)
Translated by: Julie Rose
Series edited by: Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780262528580
ISBN 10: 0262528584
Series: Writing Architecture
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 12 February 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hubert Damisch is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has held posts at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington. He is the author of The Origin of Perspective, The Judgment of Paris, Skyline- The Narcissistic City, and A Theory of Cloud- Toward a History of Painting. Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space- Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and The Architectural Uncanny- Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books. Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space- Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and The Architectural Uncanny- Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books.