Mountains and Megastructures by Christos Kakalis
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Mountains and Megastructures

Mountains and Megastructures


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Introduction.- Part 1 Framing Mountains/Megastructures.- Chapter One: Border versus Boundary: The Holy Mountain and the Inhabitation of its Periphery.- Chapter Two: From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement; the Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Mountaineering.- Chapter Three: House-building in the Alps with Ruskin Tyndall or CZOgraphy: an eco-criticism for the Critical Zone.- Chapter Four: Bachelard's Phenomenology and Verticality.- Chapter Five: Chthonic Countermeasures: a geological conte.- Part 2 Mountains.- Chapter Six: Everest Death Zone.- Chapter Seven: The Making and Unmaking of Kunanyi.- Chapter Eight: Lost on the edges of empire: John Stapylton Grey Pemberton's expedition to Darjeeling and the "snowy ranges".- Chapter Nine: Conquering Dragons.- Part 3 Megastructures.- Chapter Ten: Artificial Mountains.- Chapter Eleven: Terremoto in Palazzo.- Chapter Twelve: How Old Is the Barcelona Pavilion?.- Chapter Thirteen: 'Crowding the Stoop'. Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction.- Chapter Fifteen: Verticalities of the Imagination. Futurity and the Contemporary in Urban Science Fiction.- Chapter Sixteen: A Megastructure and a Mountain. Two Ways of Thinking about Architecture Culture.- Chapter Seventeen: Mount Fuji VS The Megastructures of Tokyo.

About the Author: Dr. Martin Beattie is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Christos Kakalis is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Matthew Ozga-Lawn is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789811571091
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 621 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9811571090
  • Publisher Date: 31 Mar 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
  • Width: 148 mm


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