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Nietzsche's Influence on Architecture

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "An Architecture of Our Minds" that explores the intersections between philosophy, architecture, and art through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's work. The book is divided into three parts, with the first examining Nietzsche's metaphorical use of architecture in his writings. The second part analyzes how Nietzsche's ideas influenced specific artists and architects. The third part directly considers Nietzsche's influence on architectural theory and prominent architects like Le Corbusier.

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Nietzsche's Influence on Architecture

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "An Architecture of Our Minds" that explores the intersections between philosophy, architecture, and art through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's work. The book is divided into three parts, with the first examining Nietzsche's metaphorical use of architecture in his writings. The second part analyzes how Nietzsche's ideas influenced specific artists and architects. The third part directly considers Nietzsche's influence on architectural theory and prominent architects like Le Corbusier.

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hitectur
Minds
Nietzsche and
"An Architecture of Our Minds"
Edited by Alexandre Kostka
Published by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
and Irving Wohlfarth

Issues S Debates
Contents

ix Foreword
RolfBothe

1 Introduction
Tilmann Buddensieg

Part I: The Metaphors of Architecture


19 Architecture in the Discourse of Modern Philosophy:
Descartes to Nietzsche
Claudia Brodsky Lacour

35 Nietzsche's Labyrinths: Variations on an Ancient Theme


Karsten Harries

53 The Mask and the Labyrinth: Nietzsche and the


(Uncanny) Space of Decadence
Anthony Vidler

Part IE: Between Art, Literature, and Architecture


67 Poets Are Always Producing Chaos: Nietzsche, Klimt, and
Turn-of-the-Century Vienna
Werner Hofmann

91 The Function of Nietzsche's Thought in de Chirico's Art


Paolo Baldacci

115 Architecture as the Dionysian-Apollonian Process of Dada


Hanne Bergius

141 "Construction Has the Role of the Subconscious":


Phantasmagorias of the Master Builder (with Constant
Reference to Giedion, Weber, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Benjamin)
Irving Wohlfarth
199 Architecture of the "New Man": Nietzsche, Kessler, Beuys
Alexandre Kostka

233 Van de Velde and Nietzsche; or, The Search for a


New Architectural Style for the Man of the Future
Leon Ploegaerts

Part ffl: Nietzsche and the Architects


259 Architecture as Empty Form: Nietzsche and the Art of Building
Tilmann Buddensieg

285 Nietzsche and Modern Architecture


Fritz Neumeyer

311 Le Corbusier's Nietzschean Metaphors


Jean-Louis Cohen

333 Appendix: Metamorphoses of a Concept

347 Biographical Notes on the Authors

350 Index

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