The Architect's Dream

Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination

Sean Pickersgill

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Intellect Books
10 February 2025

Theory of architecture; Architectural structure & design

A unique perspective on how to understand, and even create, meaningful architecture.

The Architect's Dream demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. Sean Pickersgill draws on a broad range of subject areas, including film, philosophy, anthropology, mathematics, and economics, to show that the path to meaningful creative practice is always based on an understanding of the principal drivers for change in society. The Architect's Dream is not a recipe book for others to reproduce; rather, it requires the engaged reader to use their own creative abilities to find the potential in each proposition, and it will encourage the scholastic architect to continue to mine the rich veins of intellectual culture to demonstrate the hidden purposiveness inherent in all meaningful architecture.

By: Sean Pickersgill
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 674g
ISBN: 9781789388725
ISBN 10: 1789388724
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 10 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Architects Must Dream 1: The Mutability of Objects Proposition 1: The Large Glass Proposition 2: Inside the Box Proposition 3: Life’s Harvest Proposition 4: Site Cycle 2: Memory Proposition 5: Calvino’s City of Memory Proposition 6: The Machine of History Proposition 7: Redemptive Objects Proposition 8: Borges’s Library 3: Reflective/Reflexive Proposition 9: Glass and Glas Proposition 10: No City Proposition 11: No Interior Proposition 12: No Form 4: War Proposition 13: Conflict Proposition 14: Healing Proposition 15: Hygiene 5: Language Proposition 16: Language Proposition 17: Ecological Symbiosis Proposition 18: Flat Out 6: Destruction Proposition 19: Fire Proposition 20: Plato’s Cave Proposition 21: Earth Proposition 22: Clouds Proposition 23: Perversions 7: Measure Proposition 24: Money Proposition 25: Wittgenstein Proposition 26: Contractual Obligation Proposition 27: Life 8: Site Proposition 28: Site Affectivity/Transgressions Proposition 29: Highway Proposition 30: High Way Proposition 31: Manufactured Proposition 32: Other Ecologies 9: Fidelity Proposition 33: Synaesthetic Proposition 34: Fidelity Proposition 35: Non-Euclidean 10: Melancholy Proposition 36: Soap Proposition 37: Shopping Proposition 38: Working Models Proposition 39: Odysseus 11: Metamorphosis Proposition 40: Metamorphosis Proposition 41: Bestiary Proposition 42: Kennels Proposition 43: Mechanization Takes Command 12: Fiction Proposition 44: Future Archaeology Proposition 45: Dreams Proposition 46: Doppelgänger Proposition 47: Cinema Proposition 48: The Puzzle 13: Crime Proposition 49: Forgeries Proposition 50: Detectives Proposition 51: TV Eye Proposition 52: Punishment Proposition 53: Cannibalism 14: Surface Proposition 54: Knots Proposition 55: Collage Proposition 56: Discotheque Proposition 57: Sfumato 15: Hope Proposition 58: Hope Proposition 59: Tractatus Proposition 60: Trust Afterword Constant Gardening Bibliography Index

Dr Sean Pickersgill is a senior architectural academic within UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia. He has published widely on the intersection of architecture, digital culture and philosophy.