This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers crucial to successful architecture writing: clarity of thinking and expression.
Kojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant.
Jacques Derrida’s thinking is radical, provocative, controversial, and even difficult. This book looks afresh at Derrida’s thinking in relation to architecture. It simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way.
The book is organised into five main parts that look at in turn: the image in contemporary culture; language, thought and the image; the many faces of the image; the poetic image; and finally the architectural image.
These are a few of the compelling suggestions offered by this richly detailed study, which explores – from two perspectives – the issue of how architects and designers view the phenomenal world.
This original and thoughtful study provides the first thorough examination of the relationship between architecture and language as complex social practices.