Literary spaces. Architecture and literature.
Since the second half of the twentieth century, in particular, bridges between architecture and literature have been regularly built, both by academics and by architects and writers themselves. If one thinks of canonical works such as Le Corbusier’s Poème de l’angle droit or Louis I. Khan’s Order is, or even of the attention paid to architecture by the architects and writers themselves, it’s clear that architecture and literature have always been closely linked. Khan’s Poème l’angle droit, or even the attention paid to the city by established writers such as Perec, Gracq, Eco and Calvino, it is interesting to note that a much broader corpus of contemporary writings makes space and spaces the living heart of a poetics of inhabitation, accompanying, nourishing and sometimes anticipating the famous spatial turn undertaken by the social sciences during the 1980s.
These two days of studyon “Literary Spaces”, in a cross-disciplinary dialogue between literature and architecture, will focus on spaces as a point of decompartmentalization between the literary and architectural domains, and will aim to bring together the ideas and knowledge of researchers and teachers, as well as professionals, artisans of space and language. The notion of space will be understood in its broadest sense: spaces as they are lived, told, described or perceived, typographic, textual or architectural spaces, discursive or conceptual spaces, public or intimate. While the angles of approach are multiple and the paths of thought almost infinite in their analogical potentialities, three thematic orientations were proposed to the contributors.
These days are open to all, with no prior registration required, and will be held exclusively face-to-face. Come one, come all!
Organizers: Manola Antonioli, philosopher, PhD in philosophy and social sciences, professor of social sciences and humanities (philosophy) at Ensaplv.
With the support and participation of :
- LAA (UMR LAVUE 7218),
- Collège International de Philosophie/Campus Condorcet,
- HAR/Université Paris Nanterre research team,
- Marco Candore for the program of readings that punctuate the days.
