The architect, the cook, and good taste

The architect, the cook, and good taste

by Hagen, Petra Toyka, Rolf

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This book pursues the astonishing parallels and deeply rooted connections between the art of building and that of cooking. A variety of essays takes up questions of materiality and proportioning. Attention will also be given to food cultivation and architecture, to the places where meals are prepared as well as a range of different culinary spaces.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The architect, the cook, and good taste / [concept and copy editing], Petra Hagen Hodgson, Rolf Toyka ; [translation, Michael Robinson and others] ; on behalf of the Academy of the Hesse Chamber of Architects and Town Planners.

Summary

This book pursues the astonishing parallels and deeply rooted connections between the art of building and that of cooking. A variety of essays takes up questions of materiality and proportioning. Attention will also be given to food cultivation and architecture, to the places where meals are prepared as well as a range of different culinary spaces.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Birkhäuser
  • Place of Publication:Basel
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

  • Description:157 pages : : illustrations (some color), plans ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783764376215, 376437621X, 9783764373313, 3764373318, 9783764384838, 3764384832
  • oclc:ocn123125876
  • LC Classification:NA2543.C66
  • Dewey Decimal:720.47

Table of Contents

Architecture and food composition / Peter Kubelka -- Measurement and number in architecture / Paul von Naredi-Rainer -- Measurements in cooking / Renate Breuss -- Materials and colours / Annette Gigon in Conversation with Petra Hagen Hodgson -- The homely hearth : building and living, eating and drinking, considered in terms of architectural theory / Fritz Neumeyer -- Rules of fasting and desire derailed : notes on architecture and gastronomy / Stanislaus von Moos -- The reproducibility of taste / Ákos Moravánszky -- Meaningful architecture in a globalised world / Gion Caminada -- The eater and his ancestors / Andreas Hartmann -- Hearth and home : food preparation locations in changing times / Peter Davey -- From pot au feu to processed food : the restaurant as a modernist location / Wilhelm Klauser -- The globalisation of taste / Udo Pollmer -- Architectural essentials / Claudio Silvestrin -- The order of courses : a theatrically composed structure / Onno Faller -- Slow food / Carlo Petrini -- A visit to Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir or A culinary and architectural Gesamtkunstwerk / Petra Hagen Hodgson -- The cuisine of making shelter / Ian Ritchie.

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