Confabulations: storytelling in architecture

Paul Emmons is a registered architect and Professor at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech where he directs the PhD program in Architecture + Design Research. Marcia F Feuerstein is an architect and associate professor at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. Her research investigates links between theory, practice and performance in architecture and she studied at Tufts University, the University at Buffalo and University of Pennsylvania, where she also received a PhD in Architecture. Carolina Dayer is an architect in her native country Argentina and recently received her PhD degree from Washington Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. She currently teaches at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. Her research and personal practice focuses on multivalent forms of architectural drawing.

Foreword / Jack Davis -- Introduction : Homo fabula / Paul Emmons and Luc Phinney -- Part I. Architecture of stories : Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé / Elaine Scarry -- The fabulous ox in Fengshiu's fabrication of site / Qi Zhu -- The "uncharted tides": a literary map of Saint Petersburg / Angeliki Sioli -- Macaronically speaking / Manuela Antoniu -- Il Mantecato: an architectural course served at the Frascaridonosor's tavern of crossed destinies -- Part II. Stories of architecture : Buildings remember / David Leatherbarrow -- Object talks: confabulation of dwelling space in the texts of Kamo no Chōmei and Wajirō Kon / Izumi Kuroishi -- Suspended ceiling stories: navigation the cosmo-technologies of hospital ceilings / Federica Goffi -- Saul Steinberg's stories of dor / Andreea Mihalache -- The enlightening radiance of shadows / Hooman Koliji -- Architecture sub rosa: another tell-tale detail, with confabulations and digressions / Tracey Eve Winton -- Part III. Stories of theory : Language and architectural meaning / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- Walls of gender / Claudio Sgarbi -- Architecture's two bodies / Donald Kunze -- Camillo Sitte's winged snail: festina lente and escargot / Ma…