TY - CHAP
T1 - Magic Mirrors
T2 - Reconstructing lost interiors from instructional and constructional writing
AU - Hollis, Edward
PY - 2018/9/3
Y1 - 2018/9/3
N2 - Stories, fictional or factual, usually refer to things and places, real or imagined that are, apparently, anterior. What happens, however, if we tell stories about the future? If writing precedes building, which one represents which? This chapter will address what is literally creative writing: the specifications and instructions that generate the planning, construction, and occupation of spaces This chapter will explore the narrative potential of ritual rubric, domestic advice, and technical guidance, examining games with tense, time and the problem of authorship to argue that Once Upon a Time can be set in the future, as well as the past.
AB - Stories, fictional or factual, usually refer to things and places, real or imagined that are, apparently, anterior. What happens, however, if we tell stories about the future? If writing precedes building, which one represents which? This chapter will address what is literally creative writing: the specifications and instructions that generate the planning, construction, and occupation of spaces This chapter will explore the narrative potential of ritual rubric, domestic advice, and technical guidance, examining games with tense, time and the problem of authorship to argue that Once Upon a Time can be set in the future, as well as the past.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781472482730
BT - The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City
A2 - Charley, Jonathan
PB - Routledge
ER -