Confabulations: storytelling in architecture

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas, objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams, fantasies, and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker, architect, and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture. Bringing together a collection of 24 essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic, and cultural range. Beginning with an introduction framing the topic, the book is organized along a continuous thread structured around four key areas: architecture of stories, stories of architecture, stories of theory and practice of stories.

Foreword, Jack Davis; Introduction: Paul Emmons and Luc Phinney; Part 1: Architecture of Stories: 1. Glass and Clay, Elaine Scarry; 2. The Fabulous Ox in Fengshui's Fabrication of Site, Qi Zhu; 3. The "Uncharted Tides", Angeliki Sioli; 4. Macaronically Speaking, Manuela Antoniu; 5. Il Mantecato, Franco Pisani; Part 2: Stories of Architecture: 6. Buildings Remember, David Leatherbarrow; 7. Object Talks, Izumi Kuroishi; 8. Suspended Ceiling Stories, Federica Goffi; 9. Saul Steinberg's Stories of Dor, Andreea Mihalache; 10. The Enlightening Radiance of Shadows, Hooman Koliji; 11. Architecture Sub Rosa, Tracey Eve Winton; Part 3: Stories of Theory: 12. Language and Architectural Meaning, Alberto Pérez-Gómez; 13. Walls of Gender, Claudio Sgarbi; 14. Architecture's Two Bodies, Donald Kunze; 15. Camillo Sitte's Winged Snail, Marcia Feuerstein; 16. Strange Tales of Architectural Evolution, Matthew Mindrup; 17. Dialetti Architecttonici, Michaelangelo Sabatino; 18. Miming a Manner of Architectural Theory, Lisa Landrum and Ted Landrum; Part 4: Practice of Stories: 19. Linear Stories in Carlo Scarpa's Architectural Drawings, Carolina Dayer; 20. In Medias Res, Jonathan Foote; 21. The Function …