Surrealism and Architecture  

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Surrealism and Architecture (2004) is a book on surrealist architecture by Thomas Mical.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. "Un Salon au Fond d'un Lac": The Domestic Spaces of Surrealism 3. Aragon's Armoire 4. "Home Poor Heart": The Architecture of Cornell's Desire 5. Matta's Lucid Landscap 6. Menace: Surrealist Interference of Space 7. Daphne's Legacy: Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Petrification in Spyros 8. The Ghost in the Machine 9. "The Gift of Time": Le Corbusier Reading Bataille 10. Introjection and Projection: Frederick Kiesler and his Dream-Machine 11. Invernizzi's Exquisite Corpse - The Villa Girasole 12. The Casa Malaparte: A Metaphysical Architecture 13. Modernist Urbanism and its Monsters 14. Surrealism and the Irrational Embellishment of Paris 15. Re-Enchanting the City: The Utopian Practices of the Paris Group of the Jill Fenton Surrealist Movement 16. Landscape Surrealism 17. Surreal City: The Case of Brasília 18. Latencies and Imago: Blanchot and the Shadow City of Surrealism 19. Surrealism's Unexplored Possibilities in Architecture 20. The Most Architectural Thing 21. Acropolis, Now!

See also

• Expressionist architecture
• Visionary architecture