Surrealism and Architecture

This is a historically informed examination of architectures perceived absencein surrealist thought surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects ofmodern ... » 

This is a historically informed examination of architectures perceived absencein surrealist thought surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects ofmodern architecture and the place of surrealist thought in contemporarydesign. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thoughtand practice of modern architecture. In these essays the role of thesubconscious the techniques of defamiliarization aesthetic and social forcesaffecting the objects interiors cities and landscapes of the twentiethcentury are revealed. The book contains a diversity of voices from acrossmodern art and architecture to bring into focus what is often overlooked in thehistories of the modernist avantgarde. This collection examines the practicesof writers artists architects and urbanists with emphasis on a critique ofthe everyday worldview offering alternative models of subjectivity artisticeffect and the production of meanings in the built world. «