Surrealism and Architecture

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Illustration credits......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
\'Un salon au fond d\'un lac\': the domestic spaces of surrealism......Page 26
Aragon\'s armoire......Page 46
\"Home poor heart\": the architecture of Cornell\'s desire......Page 56
Matta\'s lucid landscape......Page 68
Menace: surrealist interference of space......Page 75
Daphne\'s legacy: architecture, psychoanalysis and petrification in Lacan and Dal......Page 96
The ghost in the machine......Page 118
\" The gift of time\": Le Corbusier reading Bataille......Page 134
Introjection and projection: Frederick Kiesler and his dream machine......Page 155
Invernizzi\'s exquisite corpse: the Villa Girasole: an architecture of surrationalism......Page 171
The tangency of the world to itself: the Casa Malaparte and themetaphysical tradition......Page 183
Modernist urbanism and its monsters......Page 194
Surrealism and the irrational embellishment of Paris......Page 206
Re-enchanting the city: the utopian practices of the Paris group of the surrealist movement......Page 224
Landscape surrealism......Page 235
Surreal city: the case of Braslia......Page 249
Latencies and imago: Blanchot and the shadow city of surrealism......Page 264
Surrealism\'s unexplored possibilities in architecture......Page 288
The most architectural thing......Page 305
Acropolis, now!......Page 333
Bibliography......Page 348
Index......Page 366