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Architecture and Narrative

This document is a table of contents for a book titled "Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning" by Sophia Psarra. The book is divided into four parts that examine the relationship between architecture, narrative, and the formation of cultural meaning. Part one looks at how the Parthenon and Erechtheion shaped politics and myth. Part two focuses on narrative and architecture in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. Part three analyzes several museums and how their spaces and displays construct experience and exploration. Part four provides a comparative discussion and theoretical synthesis of how space forms cultural meaning.

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Architecture and Narrative

This document is a table of contents for a book titled "Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning" by Sophia Psarra. The book is divided into four parts that examine the relationship between architecture, narrative, and the formation of cultural meaning. Part one looks at how the Parthenon and Erechtheion shaped politics and myth. Part two focuses on narrative and architecture in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. Part three analyzes several museums and how their spaces and displays construct experience and exploration. Part four provides a comparative discussion and theoretical synthesis of how space forms cultural meaning.

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Architecture and

Narrative
The formation of space and cultural
meanlng

Sophia Psarra

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LONDON AND NEW YORK

Contents

List of illustration credits

ix

Preface

xii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction
Part One:

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The Parthenon and the Erechtheion: the spatial formation of place,


politics and myth

19

Invisible surface: reflections in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion

43

Part Two:
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Foundations

Architecture and Narrative in Literature

65

'The book and the labyrinth were one and the same': narrative and
archltecture in Borges' fictions

(Th)reading the Library: spatial and mathematical journeys

67
In

Borges'

Library of Babel

Part Three:
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Spatial and Narrative Interactions

111

Victorian knowledge: the Natural HIstory Museum, London and the Art
Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

137

Contemporary experience: the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and


the Burrell Collection, Glasgow

161

Tracing the modern: space, display and exploration in the Museum of


Modern Art. New York

185

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Soane through the looking-glass: the house-museum of Sir John


Soane

89

Theoretical Synthesis

Comparative discussion

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