Following Norberg-Schulz

An Architectural History through the Essay Film

Dr Anna Ulrikke Andersen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-24836-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the ‘window’ in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of architecture and place within the context of a biography of his life, linking him with other historical figures such as Helen Keller and Rainer Maria Rilke, and framing him within the modernist tradition of the latter.

Taking a novel, experimental approach, the book also explores the potential of the essay-film as an innovative new approach to producing architectural history. Bridging archival research and artistic exploration, its ten chapters, written by an architectural historian who is also a film-maker, are each accompanied by a short documentary film, hosted online and linked from within the chapter, which use the medium of film to creatively explore and delve deeper into little-known aspects of Norberg-Schulz’s theory of genius loci and the phenomenology of architecture. The book questions what it means to ‘follow’ those who came before, exploring the positionality of the architectural historian/filmmaker.

Offering an insightful account of the life, work, and theory of a key thinker, Following Norberg-Schulz is also essential reading for those interested in practice-led research methodologies, particularly in the practice of film-making and the essay film, providing a highly innovative example of scholarly research which bridges the text-film gap.

Anna Ulrikke Andersen, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, is a Norwegian architectural historian and filmmaker.

List of illustrations
Framework
Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000)
The Essay form in Film and Writing
Itinerary
Acknowledgements
Maps

Window 1 | Trondheim
Place
Practice
Essay: The Sound of a Windowpane Shattering
Window 2 | Oslo
Place
Practice
Essay: By the Window
Window 3 | Journey
Place
Practice
Essay: At the Window of a Train
Window 4 | Hamburg – Basel
Place
Practice
Essay: Three Windows on Europe 1945
Window 5 | Rome
Place
Practice
Essay: Fill in that window! Move into that Frame!
Window 6 | Piazza Navona
Place
Practice
Essay: A Campari-Moment by the Water Fountain
Window 7 | Calcata
Place
Practice
Essay: Are we not here to Say…Window
Window 8 | Sierre
Place
Practice
Essay: Les Fenêtres – en norvégien
Window 9 | Oslo
Place
Practice
Essay: Returned, X-rayed and Exposed
Window 10 | Trondheim
Place
Practice
Essay: Beyond the Network – ‘Upon’ Return

Coda
Appendix
Christian Norberg-Schulz’s CV
Books by or about Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Library
References to Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Authorship
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	65 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	586 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-24836-3 / 1350248363
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24836-6 / 9781350248366
Zustand	Neuware