Ecstatic Architecture
The Surprising Link : From a debate of the Academy International Forum at the Royal Academy
Charles Jencks

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Author(s)

Charles Jencks

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1999

Scope

176 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.

ISBN

0471983985

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Ecstatic Architecture has opened up architectural thought and made links with historic building. The term encompasses buildings widely distant in function and time, from cave art to the new cinema centre in Dresden, from explicitly erotic architecture to buildings which have a spiritual role, from conceptual and cybernetic artefacts to pure architecture. It suggests comparisons between the current practice of leading architects such as Hans Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Nigel Coates and Egyptian, Baroque and Art Nouveau architecture.

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Person as subject

Hans Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Nigel Coates

Keywords

community art , architecture history

Location

Cabinet 15 - 4: Architectuur en Kunst

Remarks

Incl. notes, index.