Note: Figure references are in italics
airport: Frankfurt 3; Manchester 3
Architecture d’aujourd’hui 44, 47
Architecture without Architects 84, 89
artificial neural network (ANN) 255
Ashford, Kent 154
Asplund, Gunnar 14–15, 50–1, 53
Barbican 280–1 see also London
Bardot, Brigitte 81
Barkers Pool 123, 125 see also Sheffield
Bern 2
binocular vision ii, 98, 241, 258
Blenheim 107
Bolles and Wilson 17 see also Münster City Library
Borer, Pat 15, 75 see also Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE)
bosquet 107
Bourdieu, Pierre 6–7, 98, 101, 159, 163, 170–1
brains in jars 96
Browne, Tom 110
building information modelling (BIM) 261–2, 265 see also computer-aided design (CAD)
Burke, Edmund 137, 139, 141 see also sublime, the
Capri 8, 82 see Villa Malaparte
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) 72
Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) 265, 26, 274
Chamberlin Powell and Bon 280
Chambers, William 108
Chapter House, Wells Cathedral 72–3
Charles II 104
Charter of Athens 2, 6, 114, 155, 277, 291
Chartreuses village 197
Cheyenne camp 165
Chermayeff, Serge i
cinema of attractions 217, 245–6, 250
circulation: airport 3; cloister 23, 172; corridors 162, 209; dignity of 29; King Edward VII Hospital 280; Konigsberg Stock Exchange 16; method of transport 2, 140, 148, 278; Muthesius, Hermann 35; promenade architecturale 44, 48; room relationships 13, 40, 42, 70, 162; space for movement 206; staircases 12, 28, 30–2, 34, 206; steps 34; Viollet-le-duc, Eugène-Emmanuel 23
cloister 11–12, 23–4, 104, 172–3
Colegio do Espirito Santo 104
computer aided design (CAD) 218, 259–262 see also building information modelling (BIM)
Congress of Athens 150
corridor: King Edward VII Hospital 280; Lauriston School 204, 206–7, 209; long closure 126; movement 266; railway trains 132; social rules 162; stairs 33; theatres 30–1; WISE building 78, 80
Cottbus Technical University library 241–2 see also Herzog & de Meuron
Croome Court 108
da Cunha, Dilip 230, 232, 236 see also Mathur and da Cunha
Das englische Haus 12, 35 see also Muthesius, Hermann
Davies, William 144
de Certeau, Michel 114–15, 119
De Chirico, Giorgio 83
De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill ii see also Mendelsohn, Erich
Deleuze, Gilles 48, 119, 253, 257
Descartes, René 96
Drachten 153
Drexler, Arthur 12
Duchamp, Marcel 235
East Royal Tombs, Zunhua, Hebei Province, China 156, 162, 186–92
Ecole des Beaux Arts 12
Elne 24
Enigma of the Oracle 83
Exhibition Road 150–1, 153–4 see also London
Fénelon 197
Galileo 142
Garnier, Charles 12, 25, 27–9, 31, 33–4, 162
Godard, Jean-Luc 17, 81–2, 87 see also Le mépris
Goffman, Erving 5, 7, 99, 101, 159, 163
Gold Route 122, 123, 124 see also Sheffield
Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition Pavilion 15, 50, 51–4 see also Asplund, Gunnar
habitus 159
Hackney 162, 204, 254 see also London
Häring, Hugo 132
Herzog, & de Meuron 212, 217, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 288–9, 291
Herzog, Werner 129
Hortus Botanicus, Leiden 103
Igualada Cemetery 217, 230, 231, 232, 234, 237 see also Miralles, Enric
Imperial Hotel 59 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
Ji Tang village 220
Jorn, Asger 114
Kant, Immanuel 100, 130, 136, 138–9, 141
Kassel Theatre project 15, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71 see also Scharoun, Hans
Keiller, Patrick 17, 217, 244–5, 247, 249–50
King Edward VII Hospital 280
Kittler, Friedrich 81
Königsberg Stock Exchange 15–16 see also Scharoun, Hans
Koolhaas, Rem 239
koshikake machiai 181
Kracauer, Siegfried 252, 256–7
Kyu-misu-dera Temple, Kyoto, Japan, 57–8
Lao Tzu 72
Larkin, Philip 132
Lauriston School 162, 204–5, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 see also London
Le Corbusier 2–4, 13–14, 44, 45, 46–9, 63, 86, 150, 155, 278
Lee, Laurie 128–9, 133, 247, 282
Lefebvre, Henri 136, 141, 246, 248–50, 281
Le mépris 17, 81–3, 86–7 see also Godard, Jean-Luc
Lettrist International 113
Libera, Adalberto 8, 82, 84, 86 see also Villa Malaparte
London: Barbican 280–1; cab drivers 130; Cavendish Square 196; Exhibition Road in Kensington 150–1; gravel walks 103; Gray’s Inn Fields 104; Guildhall 167; Kempster, William 276; King Edward VII Hospital Extension 280; Lauriston School, Lee, Laurie 128, 282; Hackney 162, 204; public works 117–8; Stoke Newington High Street 218, 254; Tack, Dora 160; Tate Modern 239; Victoria Park 110; Wilson, Peter 17; Wright, Frank Lloyd 63
Lunéville, gardens of 162, 196–7, 198, 199, 200, 201–3
Malaparte, Curzio 81, 84 see also Villa Malaparte
marche 12
Massumi, Brian 254
Mathur, Anuradha 230, 232, 236 see also Mathur and da Cunha
Mathur and da Cunha 217, 230, 232–3, 235, 236, 237–8
Mattern, Hermann 15, 65, 68, 71
Melville, Jean-Pierre 244
Mendelsohn, Erich ii see also De la Warr Pavilion
Mercat de Santa Caterina 233
Milan Prada Foundation 239 see also Herzog & de Meuron
Ministry of Transport 146, 148
Miralles, Enric 217, 230–31, 233–4, 237
Monastery of St Gall, plan of 17, 172
Monderman, Hans 152
Mongolian yurt 165
montage 46, 49, 217, 245, 247, 249
Münster City Library 17 see also Bolles and Wilson
Muthesius, Hermann 12, 18, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 162 see also Das englische Haus and Wie baue ich mein Haus
Nanterre 118
New Babylon, The 114
Nidd, River 106
Nieuwenhuys, Constant 114
nijiri-guchi 183
Nitschke, Günter 57, 64, 80, 181, 183–4
Nivola house, 86
O’Sullivan, Timothy 19
Ocatillo 60 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
Odyssey, The 17, 81, 83, 86, 89, 100
OMA 239
Opéra, Paris 12, 25–7, 28, 32, 111, 162 see also Garnier, Charles
Ottoneum 66, 71 see also Kassel Theatre project
Palladio, Andrea 11, 19, 21–2, 74, 79 see also Villa Barbaro, Maser
Peace Gardens 123, 124–5 see also Sheffield
pedestrian 4, 17, 68–9, 94–5, 103, 105, 113, 133, 142, 144–5, 147, 149–52, 154, 244, 261, 280, 283
Pepler, George 144
Philharmonie, Berlin 15–16 see also Scharoun, Hans
Phillips, Robert 102
plane 4, 60, 63, 94, 97, 230, 233, 256, 259, 266, 274
Playtime 3, 133 see also Tati, Jacques
Pollock, Jackson 86
Ponti, Gio 86
promenade architecturale 4, 13, 44, 45
Proust, Marcel 94, 130–1, 133, 284
Purple Rose of Cairo, The 284–5
railway 129, 132–3, 144–5, 247, 249
Reclaim the Streets movement 115
Richard, François 199
Rievaulx Abbey 161, 172–3, 175
rite of passage 162
Robinson in Ruins 244, 246 see also Keiller, Patrick
Robinson in Space 129, 244 see also Keiller, Patrick
roji-mon 181
Rudofsky, Bernard 17, 84, 85, 86, 89, 117
San Gimignano 2
San Michele Hotel 86
Save our Streets campaign 151
Scharoun, Hans 15–16, 65–7, 68, 69, 70, 71, 162
Schaulager Museum, Basel 212, 239, 240 see also Herzog & de Meuron
Schminke House 15–16, 18 see also Scharoun, Hans
Select Committee on Public Walks 109
Sheffield: City Council 142, 144–5, 147–8; Craven, Clifford 143; Diagonal Road Scheme 144–5, 147; Gold Route 122, 123–6; Peace Gardens 123, 124–5; replanning and reconstruction 142–3; ring road 94, 135; School of Architecture 11, 17, 229, 257; Sheffield Replanned 145–6
simulation 218–19, 256, 260–3, 265, 273
Sitte, Camillo 2
Situationists 4, 93, 112–14, 116
Skhería 87
Skvallertorget 153
Snelson, Kenneth 270
St James Park 104 see also London
stairs: De la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill ii; dignity of 29; East Royal Tombs 191; Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition Pavilion 53–4; Lauriston School 206; Le Corbusier 47; Paris Opera 12, 27; parti 31–4; Rievaulx abbey 173; Rudofsky, Bernard 86; Schminke House 16; servants 43; spatial device 266; Stockholm City Library 14; Vitra Haus 243; Wells Cathedral 72–3; Willits Villa 55; WISE building 76–7, 79; Wycombe General 279; Yamamura House 60
Stanislaus titular King of Poland, 196
Star Trek 6
Stockholm City Library 14
Stoke Newington High Street 254–6 see also London
Storer House 60 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
Stuart, James 196
sublime, the 86, 94, 135–41 see also Burke, Edmund
Taliesin West 60, 61, 62–4 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
Tati, Jacques 3, 133 see also Playtime
terrains vagues 116
threshold: bodily movement 99, 164; chado principle of kei 182; divisions and transitions 2, 5, 6, 59, 64, 96, 121, 160–2, 204; dragon of the gate 228; internal verandah, engawa 60; modernist hospital 278; nijiri-guchi 183; ritual crossing of 169, 170, 181, 284
Through Miller’s Dale 247
tobi-ishi 183
Touch of Evil 244–5, 250 see also Welles, Orson
trains: modes of transport 64, 127–8, 132–3, 136, 159, 217, 245, 247, 283–4; railway trains 132; underground trains 132; electric trains 277
tsukubai 183
Ulrich, Roger 280
Ulysses 81–3, 86–9 see also Odyssey, The
Un Flic (1972) 244–5 see also Melville, Pierre
Vahl, Joost 152
van Gennep, Arnold 169
Versailles 106–7, 111, 199, 203
Villa Barbaro, Maser 22, 74 see also Palladio, Andrea
Villa Malaparte 8, 82, 85 see also Libera, Adalberto and Malaparte, Curzio
Villa on Procida 85
Villa Savoye 3, 13, 18, 44, 45, 46–7, 49 see also Le Corbusier
Viollet-le-duc, Eugène-Emmanuel 11, 17, 23–4, 28
virtual reality 216, 218, 260, 284
VitraHaus 242–3 see also Herzog & de Meuron
Walbiri 168
Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE) 15, 72
walkabout 129
Wasmuth portfolio 55 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
wayfinding 280
Welles, Orson 244 see also Touch of Evil
Whately, Thomas 107
Wie baue ich mein Haus 13, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43 see also Muthesius, Hermann
Wilhelmine Theatre 69
Willits villa 56–7 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wilson, Peter 8, 17, 81–2, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 see also Bolles and Wilson
WISE Building 75–8 see also Wales Institute for Sustainable Education
Woodland Cemetery 15 see Asplund, Gunnar
Worlidge, John 105
Wright, Frank Lloyd 15, 18, 55, 56–7, 59, 60, 61, 62–4, 163
Wycombe General Hospital, 279
Yamamura House 59 see also Wright, Frank Lloyd
yori-tsuki 181
Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall 280