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Christian Parreno (San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador)

Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

Christian Parreno (San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador)

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English
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
15 April 2021
Theory of architecture
Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architecture—one that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory.

Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience investigates that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history, from the 19th century to the present, to survey how boredom became a normalized component of the everyday, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of architecture, and how it serves to diagnose moments of crisis in the continuous transformations of the built environment.

Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to literature and psychology to make its case. Combining archival material, scholarly sources, and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers—including Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, and Jorge Silvetti—it reveals the complexity and importance of boredom in architecture.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   744g
ISBN:   9781350148130
ISBN 10:   135014813X
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Illustrations Preface Foreword by Iain Borden Acknowledgements Introduction: Boredom as Architecture 1. A Component of Modernity Differential Distances 2. Fascination and Aversion 3. Søren Kierkegaard’s Babylonian Tower 4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness 5. Blunting and Jading 6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures Circular Trajectories 7. A Unity of Disarray 8. Martin Heidegger’s Urge to Be at Home 9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom 10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion 11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough Extended Thresholds 12. Potential Architectures 13. Andrew Benjamin’s Antithesis to Boredom 14. Boredom in Domus 15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk 16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic 17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow Epilogue: Architectures of Boredom Bibliography Index

Christian Parreno is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

Reviews for Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

This is an innovative introduction to a new subject which would be of interest to a readership of researchers and architectural theoreticians. A significant contribution to architectural theory, it comes at a time when alternative ways of addressing modernist history and theory are gaining interest fast. --Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Director for the Centre of Research in European Architecture (CREAte), University of Kent Writing about boredom requires a special skill for sure and I believe that the book for the most part accomplishes this admirably. . . . As to the market, this is no textbook, but a serious work of scholarship that will appeal primarily to the history/theory world. It is also interdisciplinary and so will appeal to philosophy and literature. All in all, I strongly recommend publication. It is an outstanding work, thoughtful, meaningful and provocative. --Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, MIT


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