Marco Frascari's Dream House : A Theory of Imagination (Hardcover)

Preface. Panta Rhei: in the Drawn and Written Lines of the "Dream House". Reading Drawings: A "Science Without a Name". 1. A Congenial Inauguration. The Magic Meal. The Ingredients. 2. Telling and Casting. The Requirements of the Play. The Incubation 3. The Importance of Dreaming in Architecture. The Magic Threshold. A Mantic View. The Magic of Translation. The Trade. 4. The Origin and Beginning of the Dream House. The Practice of Dreaming. Description of the Design of the House-Tower. 5. The Present Architecture Smells Bad. Vita Beata. The Happiness of Bathroom Imagination. 6. The Analogical Monster. The Drawings of the House-Tower. The Recto and the Verso. Conclusions. Dream Long and Hard Enough. Drawings, Model and Sketchbooks for the House-Tower. Bibliography. Postscript. Federica Goffi Interviews Claudio Sgarbi: Oneiric Recollections of a Design. Index.