Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

by Henri Lefebvre ; ed. by Lukasz Stanek ; translated by Robert Bononno

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Author(s)

Henri Lefebvre

Editor(s)

Lukasz Stanek

Publisher, year

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

Scope

194 p., 22 cm.

ISBN

9780816677207

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The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture - Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, the first publication of Henri Lefebvre’s only book devoted to architecture, redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. Lefebvre calls for an architecture of jouissance—of pleasure or enjoyment—centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses.

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Location

Cultural approach to (urban) space

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.