Things That Move

A Hinterland in Architectural History

Tim Anstey

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MIT Press
21 May 2024

Architecture

A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.

A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.

We tend to think of architecture as a practice in permanence, but what if we looked instead for an architecture of transience? In Things That Move, Tim Anstey does just that- rather than assuming that architecture is, at a certain level, stationary, he considers how architecture moves subjects (referring to its emotive potential in the experience it creates); how it moves objects (referring to how it choreographs bodies in motion); and how it is itself moved (referring to the mixture of materials, laws, affordances, and images that introduce movement into any architectural condition).

The first of the book's three sections, ""Cargoes,"" highlights the mobile peripheries of architectural history through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It asks what kinds of knowledge can be included under a discussion of something called architecture, noting the connections between discourses of the lithe and the technical, on the one hand, and those associated with the production of monumental, static compositions on the other. The second section, ""Dispatches,"" reinterprets early architectural theory by examining the Renaissance ideal of decorum, the nature of the architectural work, and the ways in which architects are constituted as authors. Lastly, ""Vehicles"" considers building in terms of literal and metaphorical movement, using two cases from the twentieth century that investigate the relationship between architecture and cultural memory.

Using a broadly forensic approach to connect details in otherwise disparate cases, Things That Move is a breathtakingly capacious architectural account that will change the way readers understand buildings, their becoming, and their significance.

By: Tim Anstey
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 159mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547505
ISBN 10: 0262547503
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Cinnabar and Quicksilver 1 Part I: Cargoes 1530–1910 Architecture Aslant 27 Economies of the Interior 91 Moving Large Things About in the Nineteenth Century 131 Part II: Dispatches 1450–1590 Dealing with Decorum 189 Domenico Fontana and the Vatican Obelisk 213 Part III: Vehicles 1890–1960 The Tenants’ Furniture 255 Early Electric 301 Afterword: Venezia Santa Lucia 359 Acknowledgments 363 Notes 365 Bibliography 399 Index 417

Tim Anstey is Chair of the PhD Programme at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He is the author of Architecture and Authorship and the designer and cocurator for the international exhibitions Images of Egypt at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, and Warburg Models at the Warburg Haus, Berlin and the Architectural Association, London.

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A Hinterland in Architectural History

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