Focusing on Copenhagen's transformation during its 'Golden Age,' this book explores the city's evolution into a modern urban center around 1800-1850. It highlights the architectural contributions of C.F. Hansen and the impending modernization efforts like street lighting and sewer systems. Additionally, it delves into the perspectives of notable citizens—philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, and criminal Ole Kollerod—who reflect on the city's institutional framework and daily life, providing a rich cultural context to this pivotal era.
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture
304 stránok
11 hodin čítania
Exploring the intersection of architecture and urbanism with phenomenology, this book features contributions from architects and scholars with diverse backgrounds, including literature, history, religious studies, and art history. It delves into the intricate relationship between architecture and the city, examining various historical and contemporary contexts to enrich the understanding of urban spaces.
Exploring the intersection of architecture and digital culture, this work examines the phenomenon of gigantism, highlighting its evolution from iconic structures like the Eiffel Tower to modern skyscrapers such as One World Trade Center. Authors Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel analyze how towering buildings serve not only as architectural feats but also as crucial nodes within vast digital networks. The book critiques the implications of this convergence, revealing the cultural significance of these monumental forms in contemporary society.
Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic
144 stránok
6 hodin čítania
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, this short volume reflect
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the cultural significance of these developments, such as transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life. The book contends that when it comes to the changing relationship of the visible and the invisible, the connection between seeing and not being seen is an exchange conditioned by physical and social settings that create certain possibilities for visibility and visuality, yet exclude others. The richness and complexity of this cultural framework means that no single discipline or interdisciplinary approach could capture it single-handedly. Invisibility Studies begins this conversation by bringing together scholars across the fields of architectural history and theory, art, film and literature, philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary anthropology as well as featuring work by a collective of artists.
