Sublime Visions : Architecture in the Alps /
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Author / Creator: | Stacher, Susanne, author. |
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Imprint: | Basel : Birkhäuser, [2018] ©2018 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edition Angewandte |
Subject: | Architecture -- Alps Region -- Aesthetics. Hillside architecture -- Alps Region. Nature (Aesthetics) Architecture -- Aesthetics. Hillside architecture. Nature (Aesthetics) Alps Region. Electronic books. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12352116 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents/Foreword
- The Alps, or The Sublimation of Urban Life / Potié, Philippe
- Introduction
- The Sublime as a Principle of Self- Transcendence: Can We Create It without Betraying It? / Girons, Baldine Saint
- 1. The Emergence of the Alpine Sublime
- 2. Crystal, Crystallization
- 3. Therapeutic Landscape
- 4. Contesting for the Child
- 5. Motion, Exhilaration, and Vertigo
- 6. "Sublimation" of 30,000 Beds
- Afterword
- Postscript: Sublime Machines / Amaldi, Paolo
- Image Credits
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Places
- Acknowledgements