Description: Toward an Architecture of EnjoymentAuthor(s): Henri Lefebvre, ?ukasz Stanek, Robert Bononno Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States Imprint: University of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 9780816677207, 978-0816677207 Synopsis Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre?s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance?of pleasure or enjoyment?centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses. Examining architectural examples from the Renaissance to the postwar period, Lefebvre investigates the bodily pleasures of moving in and around buildings and monuments, urban spaces, and gardens and landscapes. He argues that areas dedicated to enjoyment, sensuality, and desire are important sites for a society passing beyond industrial modernization. Lefebvre?s theories on space and urbanization fundamentally reshaped the way we understand cities. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment promises a similar impact on how we think about, and live within, architecture.
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Book Title: Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Width: 140 mm
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publication Name: Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 248 Pages