Exploring Henri Lefebvre’s ideas on the everyday in debates on architecture of the city

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04/26/2009

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Table of Contents Exploring Henri Lefebvre’s ideas on the everyday in debates on architecture of the city Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The imprecise nature of boundaries
  3. The use of specific references
  4. Lefebvre's theories: The body is central
  5. The new meaning of The World Trade Towers in New York City
  6. Schmid's description of Lefebvre's work
  7. Lefebvre's tendency of defining the term as a kind of poetics
  8. Conclusion
  9. References

Abstract

This paper will explore ideas in the writings of henri lefebvre, beginning with a summary of Dell Upton's article "architecture in everyday Life" which touches on the set of debates about what lefebvre was suggesting in his idea of the intersection of materiality, imagination, and social boundaries in understanding the architecture and geography of cities. This will be followed with a set of theoretical explorations and applications of the idea of architecture of the everyday, where there is fluidity in the use of and/or meaning of urban space. Upton's article presents an evaluation of lefebvre's ideas regarding the links between architecture, semiotics, the meanings of buildings and linguistics - all areas of concern to henri lefebvre. Upton is concerned to situate lefebvre's theories and applications in a context where the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, is erased which is one of the main issues we find in the entire discussion of post-modernism.

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