Divisible by 2

John Whiteman,John Whiteman

ISBN 10: 0262730936 ISBN 13: 9780262730938

Published by MIT Press December 1990, Cambridge, 1990

Language: English

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Title

Divisible by 2

Publisher

MIT Press December 1990, Cambridge

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0262730936

ISBN 13

9780262730938

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Divisible by 2 documents an architectural experiment by John Whiteman that articulates the preoccupations and concerns of the current generation of architectural and cultural theorists and practitioners. It investigates questions of embodiment, signification, visual perception and physical experience developed in a square pavilion that was erected in Austria as part of the Geburt einer Haupstadt (Birth of a Capital) exhibition. Integrating the text with images and drawings of the building, Divisible by 2 reveals the project's philosophical concerns and explains the design processes. John Hejduk's commentary establishes a dialogue with the project, acting as a critical counterpoint to text and images. More specifically, Divisible by 2 explores the cross-relationships between building, image, and word. Partly inspired by Jacques Lacan's depiction of a figure of two doors, one marked for men, the other for women, in his writings on the "agency of the letter in the unconscious," Whiteman's pavilion marks the architecture of human and sexual difference.

John Whiteman is the Director of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism.

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John Whiteman is the Director of the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism.

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