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Architecture and modern literature

Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness.

Online University of Michigan Press

Architecture and modern life

Architecture of modern China : a historical critique

This work features a collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the 20th century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of 'critical' and 'historical' research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. This is a short, elegant book that condenses the wide subject matter into key topics.

Religion

Stanford Libraries' Religion collections contain a variety of print and online resources for the study of religions. This page provides information on our collections in American religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Asian religious traditions.

Amos Gitai: Architecture, Cinema, Politics

Lindsay King