Boredom, Architecture, And Spatial Experience

List of Illustrations Preface Foreword by Iain Borden Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Boredom as Architecture -- 1. A Component of Modernity -- Differential Distances 2. Fascination and Aversion 3. Søren Kierkegaard's Babylonian Tower 4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness 5. Blunting and Jading 6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures -- Circular Trajectories 7. A Unity of Disarray 8. Martin Heidegger's Urge to Be at Home 9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom 10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion 11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough -- Extended Thresholds 12. Potential Architectures 13. Andrew Benjamin's Antithesis to Boredom 14. Boredom in Domus 15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk 16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic 17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow -- Epilogue: Architectures of Boredom -- Bibliography Index.

• | Author: Christian Parreno
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Architecture
• | ISBN-10: 1350213640
• | ISBN-13: 9781350213647