# A History of Thresholds: Life, Death & Rebirth - Hardcover

by **Jacques Ferrier** (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), **Pauline Marchetti** (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), **Philippe Simay** (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Thresholds are anthropological constants: they can be found in every  
culture and every era. Like limits and borders, they express one of  
humanity's fundamental relations to space. Places where spaces are  
separated and connected, thresholds are also metaphorically potent  
across cultures, as passageways where subjectivity is transformed.

_A History of Thresholds: Life, Death and Rebirth_  
uses the threshold as a guiding thread to explore the meaning and  
importance that humans have invested in built spaces. The book is a  
visual narrative about the life, death and--eventually-- rebirth of these  
thresholds: from the Ancient Greeks to the emergence of the private  
domain and the transparency of contemporary architecture, which seems to  
diminish the liminal space of the threshold. _A History of Thresholds_ argues for the need to reinvent the threshold in order to establish a new contract between architecture and humanism.

**Number of Pages:** 184

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 8.3 x 6 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 23, 2018

## Details

- **Price:** 40.0 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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