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Robert Harbison

Eccentric Spaces

Robert Harbison

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English
MIT Press
28 February 2000
Theory of art; Theory of architecture
Series: The MIT Press
The subject is the human imagination-and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in- gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure.

Like all of Robert Harbison's works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author's interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination-and the mysterious interplay between the imagination and the spaces it has made for itself to live in- gardens, rooms, buildings, streets, museums and maps, fictional topographies, and architectures. The book is a lesson in seeing and sensing the manifold forms created by the mind for its own pleasure.

Palaces and haunted houses, Victorian parlors, Renaissance sculpture gardens, factories, hill-towns, ruins, cities, even novels and paintings constructed around such environments-these are the spaces over which the author broods. Brilliantly learned, deliberately remote in form from conventional scholarship, Eccentric Spaces is a magical book, an intellectual adventure, a celebration.

Since its original publication in 1977, Eccentric Spaces has had a devoted readership. Now it is available to be discovered by a new generation of readers.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 226mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9780262581837
ISBN 10:   0262581833
Series:   The MIT Press
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Robert Harbison has lectured widely on architecture at the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University, and the Architectural Association, London. His previous books include Eccentric Spaces, Deliberate Regression, and Pharaoh's Dream.

Reviews for Eccentric Spaces

Eccentric Spaces ... makes me want to rush out in every direction at once and reexamine all I have ever seen. You can hardly ask a book to do more than that. --Anatole Broyard, New York Times It awakens the reader to the space around him, and it is a reminder of how much we want from the world. --Richard Todd, Atlantic Monthly


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