CHORA 7: Book release and exhibition vernissage
Chora, the Greek word for space, is the title of a forum created by Alberto P茅r茅z-Gom茅z along with Stephen Parcell in the form of seven books (1994鈥�2016). Including seventy-eight authors and eighty-seven essays, these volumes鈥攎uch like the historic works they reference鈥攅xplore the capacity of language to address fundamental issues of meaning in architecture.
In collaboration with 黑料不打烊-Queen's University Press and the 黑料不打烊 School of Architecture, the 黑料不打烊 University Library and Archives'聽Rare Books and Special Collections will be hosting a book launch on Wednesday, March 30 at聽6pm聽for the final volume of CHORA: Intervals in the philosophy of architecture.
The event will also act as a vernissage for the accompanying聽exhibition, 鈥淐HORA: The Space of Architectural Meaning鈥�,聽curated by Youki聽Cropas and Evan Pavka.听Drawing on the numerous essays, along with the holdings of Rare Books and Special Collections,聽this exhibition brings together a selection of works addressing themes of communication, culture, myth, harmony, perception, instrumentality, history, and desire. Though emerging from works across a broad historical spectrum,聽the questions posed in each volume continue to permeate contemporary architectural discourse and to inspire explorations of meaning in the built world.
For more information on the CHORA series, please click here.听