Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions

152 Pages·2008·1.46 MB·English

by  Keith Mitnick

Artificial Light /
A Narrative Inquiry into the
Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and
other Architectural Fictions

The notion of
immediacy is not
immediate.

Sensory experience
does not underlay
culture; it is a
product of it.

There are as many
things as there are
views of things.

Artificial Light /
A Narrative Inquiry into the
Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and
other Architectural Fictions / Keith Mitnick /
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mitnick, Keith.
Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other
architectural fictions / Keith Mitnick.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-56898-749-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Architecture—Philosophy. I. Title.
NA2500.M58 2008
720.1—dc22
2007042492