Room 5: Arcade

Trifiro, Fabrizio,Tercier, John,Segal Weizman & Herz Architects,Penner, Barbara,Newton, Toby,Morris, Mark,James, Catherine,Holm, Lorens,Gooding, Francis,Gebbia, Pierandrea,Clough, Robert,Battista, Kathy

ISBN 10: 0853159505 / ISBN 13: 9780853159506

Published by The London Consortium, 2002

About this Item

Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Seller Inventory # M0853159505Z3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Room 5: Arcade
• Publisher: The London Consortium
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853159505
• ISBN 13: 9780853159506
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The second issue in the series Room 5, Arcade features reflections on female urinals and edible architecture; a consideration of scatalogical elements in the work of Kurt Schwitters; an analysis of hypothermia as a primary death fantasy; interviews with Richard Rorty and Dan Graham; an exploration of Fragonard's gravity fantasies; essays and designs for museum architecture; and thoughts on Walter Benjamin, perspective, and the act of writing. Arcade is a collection of essays, discussions, architectural design and graphic projects that convene, as in an arcade, in their mutual attempt to escape the conditions in the street. Drawing together work that reflects the commitment of the London Consortium to multidisciplinary research, Room 5 recognizes the need to analyze modern culture in its social context, with input and output from the human sciences, cultural policy and cultural production.