Privet: a theology of suburban privacy
Book chapter
Stone, R. 2003. Privet: a theology of suburban privacy. in: Boyd-Whyte, I. (ed.) The Spirit of the City London Routledge. pp. 209-236
Chapter title | Privet: a theology of suburban privacy |
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Authors | Stone, R. |
Abstract | This essay pays attention to the formation of types of municipal architectural space (both domestic and public) where a theme of privacy is foregrounded. The essay offers a reconceptualisation of an ecstatic quality of privacy in such space via a pair of concerted gestures. Firstly: the animation of a series of theological moments that provide an conceptual-investigative grammar for such experience. And, secondly, an overview of the tropes of privacy that have appeared in architectural commentary since the mid-1930s. Isolating instances in the discourse on modern architectural space where fantastic subjective approaches to the use of space are given an almost banal and documentary character (in the writing of Nikolaus Pevsner, Sigfried Gideon and others), the essay brings to light a latent attention to heightened forms of experience as a viable and constant theme in the discipline of architectural history. |
Page range | 209-236 |
Book title | The Spirit of the City |
Editors | Boyd-Whyte, I. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 0415258405 |
Publication dates | |
04 Sep 2003 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Dec 2008 |
Output status | Published |
Language | English |
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