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- catalog abstract ""In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism," but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism." "As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architecture is practically nonexistent in Japan, he must first assume a dual role: one that affirms the architectonic (by scrutinizing the suppressed function of form) and one that pushes formalism to its collapse (by invoking Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem). His subsequent discussions trace a path through the work of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Finally, amidst the drive that motivates all formalization, he confronts an unbridgeable gap, an uncontrollable event encountered in the exchange with the other; thus his speculation turns toward global capital movement. While in the present volume he mainly analyzes familiar Western texts, it is precisely for this reason that his voice discloses a distance that will add a new dimension to our English-language discourse."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Inʾyū to shite no kenchiku. English".
- catalog contributor b8038268.
- catalog contributor b8038269.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism," but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism." "As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architecture is practically nonexistent in Japan, he must first assume a dual role: one that affirms the architectonic (by scrutinizing the suppressed function of form) and one that pushes formalism to its collapse (by invoking Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem). His subsequent discussions trace a path through the work of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Finally, amidst the drive that motivates all formalization, he confronts an unbridgeable gap, an uncontrollable event encountered in the exchange with the other; thus his speculation turns toward global capital movement. While in the present volume he mainly analyzes familiar Western texts, it is precisely for this reason that his voice discloses a distance that will add a new dimension to our English-language discourse."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Introduction: A map of crises / Arata Isozaki -- Translator's remarks -- Introduction to English edition -- Part one: Making. The will to architecture -- The status of form -- Architecture and poetry -- The natural city -- Structure and zero -- Natural numbers -- Part two: Becoming. Natural language -- Money -- Natural intelligence -- Schismogenesis -- Being -- The formalization of philosophy -- Part Three: Teaching and selling. Solipsism -- The standpoint of teaching -- Architecture as metaphor -- On rules -- Society and community -- The linguistic turn and Cogito -- Selling -- Merchant capital -- Credit -- Afterword.".
- catalog extent "xlv, 199 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262611139 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Writing architecture".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng jpn".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "895.6/45 20".
- catalog subject "AC146 .K321313 1995".
- catalog subject "Architecture Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: A map of crises / Arata Isozaki -- Translator's remarks -- Introduction to English edition -- Part one: Making. The will to architecture -- The status of form -- Architecture and poetry -- The natural city -- Structure and zero -- Natural numbers -- Part two: Becoming. Natural language -- Money -- Natural intelligence -- Schismogenesis -- Being -- The formalization of philosophy -- Part Three: Teaching and selling. Solipsism -- The standpoint of teaching -- Architecture as metaphor -- On rules -- Society and community -- The linguistic turn and Cogito -- Selling -- Merchant capital -- Credit -- Afterword.".
- catalog title "Architecture as metaphor : language, number, money / Kojin Karatani ; translated by Sabu Kohso ; edited by Michael Speaks.".
- catalog title "Inʾyū to shite no kenchiku. English".
- catalog type "text".