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Surrealism and

Architecture

Surrealism and Architecture examines a long-overlooked topic: the relationship

of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically

informed examination of architecture’s perceived absence in surrealist thought,

surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and

the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design methods and theories.

The book contains a diversity of voices, methodologies, and insights to bring

into sharp focus what is often suppressed in the histories of the modernist

avant-garde. Of all the artistic modernisms affecting the design of buildings

and cities, surrealism has been the least explored, yet the surrealist critiques

of rationalism, formalism, and ideology are questions imbedded in the legacy

of modern architecture. In these 21 essays, the role of the subconscious, the

techniques of defamiliarization, and critiques of social forces affecting the

objects, interiors, cities and landscapes of the twentieth century are revealed

in the works of Breton, Dali, Aragon, Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, Kiefer. Hejduk,

Tschumi, and others ranging across the history of modern art and architec-

ture. This far-ranging collection examines the theoretical, visual, and spatial

practices of writers, artists, architects, and urbanists with particular emphasis

on the critique of the everyday world-view, offering alternative models of

subjectivity, artistic processes and effects, and the imaginative production of

meanings in the built world.

With the renewed interest in the surrealist movement, this timely collection

of illustrated essays is the ﬁrst to look at the architectural possibilities of this

distinct modern artistic movement that was interdisciplinary and inter-

national. This book offers a variety of models for analysis of interdisciplinary

artistic practice; it will be of interest to scholars in the histories of mod-

ernism, students and practitioners of art and architecture, cultural studies,

and urban studies.

Thomas Mical completed his doctorate on Nietzschean thought in De

Chirico’s metaphysical paintings. He completed his professional architecture

degree at Harvard, and he has worked as a designer in Tokyo and Chicago,

and writes on surrealism, cinema, and urbanism. He has taught and lectured

on surrealism in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Currently he is Assis-

tant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Carleton University in

Ottawa, Canada.

Surrealism and

Architecture

Edited by Thomas Mical

First published 2005 by Routledge

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ISBN 0-203-33954-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-415-32519-6 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-32520-X (pbk)

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