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Seeding Change: Visionary Timber Architecture at Hooke Park, 1981–2001
Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds
Dogma: 11 Projects
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
AA Agendas – Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion
Edited by Alan Dempsey and Yusuke Obuchi
Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest
Toyo Ito
Architecture Without Content
Edited by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac, Giovanni Piovene, Dries Rodet and Andrea Zanderigo
AA Agendas – London +10
Edited by Carlos Villanueva Brandt
Any Part, Any Form
Radim Peško
Architecture Words 11 – The House of Light and Entropy
Alessandra Ponte
Forms of Inquiry Annex
Edited by Zak Kyes and Capucine Perrot
Snowing in the Supercomputer
Unknown Fields
Beyond Entropy
Edited by Stefano Raboli Pansera
O–14: Projection and Reception
Reiser + Umemoto. Edited by Brett Steele
Architecture Words 9 – Tectonic Acts Of Desire And Doubt
Mark Rakatansky
Architecture Words 12 – Stones Against Diamonds
Lina Bo Bardi
Enabling – The Work of Minimaforms
Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos
Maelfa
Sean Edwards and Sam Jacob
Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection
Jan Turnovsky
AA Book 2023
Edited by Ryan Dillon and Anna Lisa Reynolds
AA Agendas – Little Worlds
Edited by Natasha Sandmeier
AA Book 2024
Edited by Ryan Dillon and Anna Lisa Reynolds
Third Natures
Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda
High Strange
Unknown Fields
Small Architecture/Natural Architecture
Kengo Kuma
AA Agendas – Mediating Architecture
Edited by Theo Lorenz and Peter Staub
God & Co - François Dallegret - Beyond the Bubble
Edited by François Dallegret, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver
The Breastmilk of the Volcano
Unknown Fields
51N4E: Double or Nothing
AA Agendas – Articulated Grounds: Mediating Environment and Culture
Edited by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee
Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
Edited by Samantha Hardingham
Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis
Hamed Khosravi

Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection

Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection

Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection

Jan Turnovsky

AA Publications

Originally published in German in 1985 as Die Poetik eines Mauervorsprung, Jan Turnovsky's The Poetics of a Wall Projection is ostensibly a description of a corner within the breakfast room of the Villa Stonborough in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Engelmann.

But it is also much more. Working from within an established Viennese tradition (practised most famously by Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Loos and Ludwig Wittgenstein himself), Turnovsky's study elucidates a complex set of ideas from something seemingly trivial – in this case, an analysis of the villa's corner detail expands into a wider exploration of the logics of architectural syntax and his belief that good and poetic architecture is always also practical.

Jan Turnovsky (1941–95) at various times worked as a carpenter, graphic designer, tenor saxophonist, poet and architectural researcher at the Architectural Association and the Technical University in Vienna. The Poetics of a Wall Projection is translated, and introduced, by Kent Kleinman, Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.

9781902902685, 2011
11 × 18cm, illustrated, 128pp, paperback

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