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Chapter 1 Introduction A Eulogy to Penumbra

Chapter 2 At the Edges of Transparent Language

Chapter 3 Eden to Eden: At the Dawn of the Name

Chapter 4 ‘In the Womb Yet Out-of-Doors’: Penumbra and the Spaces In-Between

Chapter 5 The Warmth of Death: Alexander Brodsky and the Necropolis in the Womb of the Metropolis

Chapter 6 A Path to the Light: Variations and Multiple Dimensions

Chapter 7 Charged Space: The Anatomy of the In-between

Chapter 8 Efficiency Versus Game: Twilight Spaces for Homo Ludens

Chapter 9 Seeking the Almost: Designing Shade

Chapter 10 Rhythmic Alternation: Metaphors of Light, Dark and Shadow

Chapter 11 The Intimacy of Neglect: Thresholds, Interconnectedness and Unexpected Glimpses

Chapter 12 As If Without Time: The Nuclear Twilight Zone

Chapter 13 Things In Themselves: The X-Ray and Its Embodied Space

Chapter 14 Projecting the Indeterminate and Enigmatic: The Painting of Marco Tirelli

Chapter 15 Subliminal Blueprints for Other Dimensions: The Time-warped Sanatorium of the Quay Brothers

Chapter 16 From Another Perspective – The Shadowy World of Domesticity

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 13/07/2023
      ISBN13: 9781119983965, 978-1119983965
      ISBN10: 1119983967
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Introduction A Eulogy to Penumbra

      Chapter 2 At the Edges of Transparent Language

      Chapter 3 Eden to Eden: At the Dawn of the Name

      Chapter 4 ‘In the Womb Yet Out-of-Doors’: Penumbra and the Spaces In-Between

      Chapter 5 The Warmth of Death: Alexander Brodsky and the Necropolis in the Womb of the Metropolis

      Chapter 6 A Path to the Light: Variations and Multiple Dimensions

      Chapter 7 Charged Space: The Anatomy of the In-between

      Chapter 8 Efficiency Versus Game: Twilight Spaces for Homo Ludens

      Chapter 9 Seeking the Almost: Designing Shade

      Chapter 10 Rhythmic Alternation: Metaphors of Light, Dark and Shadow

      Chapter 11 The Intimacy of Neglect: Thresholds, Interconnectedness and Unexpected Glimpses

      Chapter 12 As If Without Time: The Nuclear Twilight Zone

      Chapter 13 Things In Themselves: The X-Ray and Its Embodied Space

      Chapter 14 Projecting the Indeterminate and Enigmatic: The Painting of Marco Tirelli

      Chapter 15 Subliminal Blueprints for Other Dimensions: The Time-warped Sanatorium of the Quay Brothers

      Chapter 16 From Another Perspective – The Shadowy World of Domesticity

      Contributors

      About Architectural Design

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