Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture

<p>Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception,</p><p>memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a</p><p>narrative. <i>Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture </i>weaves together poetic ideas,</p><p>objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions</p><p>with dreams, fantasies, and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative</p><p>framework of architectural <i>cosmopoesis </i>developed and practiced by the distinguished</p><p>thinker, architect, and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the</p><p>role of storytelling in architecture.</p><p>Bringing together a collection of 24 essays from a diverse and respected group of</p><p>scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a</p><p>broad temporal, geographic, and cultural range. Beginning with an introduction framing</p><p>the topic, the book is organized along a continuous thread structured around four</p><p>key areas: architecture of stories, stories of architecture, stories of theory and practice</p><p>of stories. Beautifully illustrated throughout and including a 64-page full colour section,</p><p>Confabulations is an insightful investigation into architectural narratives.</p> <p>List of Figures. About the Contributors. Foreword <em>Jack Davis </em>Introduction <em>Paul Emmons and Luc Phinney </em><strong>Part 1: Architecture of Stories </strong>1. Glass and Clay <em>Elaine Scarry </em>2. The Fabulous Ox in Fengshui's Fabrication of Site <em>Qi Zhu </em>3. The "Uncharted Tides" <em>Angeliki Sioli </em>4. Macaronically Speaking <em>Manuela Antoniu </em>5. Il Mantecato <em>Franco Pisani </em><strong>Part 2: Stories of Architecture </strong>6. Buildings Remember <em>David Leatherbarrow </em>7. Object Talks <em>Izumi Kuroishi </em>8. Suspended Ceiling Stories <em>Federica Goffi </em>9. Saul Steinberg's Stories of Dor <em>Andreea Mihalache </em>10. The Enlightening Radiance of Shadows <em>Hooman Koliji </em>11. Architecture Sub Rosa <em>Tracey Eve Winton </em><strong>Part 3: Stories of Theory </strong>12. Language and Architectural Meaning <em>Alberto </em><em>Pérez-Gómez </em>13. Walls of Gender <em>Claudio Sgarbi </em>14. Architecture's Two Bodies <em>Donald Kunze </em>15. Camillo Sitte's Winged Snail <em>Marcia Feuerstein </em>16. Strange Tales of Architectural Evolution <em>Matthew Mindrup </em>17. Dialetti Architecttonici <em>Michaelangelo Sabatino </em>18. Miming a Manner of Architectural Theory <em>Lisa Landrum and Ted Landrum </em><strong>Part 4: Practice of Stories </strong>19. Linear Stories in Carlo Scarpa's Architectural Drawings <em>Carolina Dayer </em>20. In Medias Res <em>Jonathan Foote </em>21. The Function of Fiction in Fabrication <em>Louise Pelletier </em>22. The Laughing Girls <em>Marc Neveu </em>23. Mi Punge Vagezza <em>Rebecca Williamson </em>24. Confabulatores Nocturni <em>Brian Ambroziak and Andrew McLellan </em>Bibliography. Index</p>