Christian Parreno - Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

Frontispiece and title page of Women as They Are, or the Manners of the Day, volume 1. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (1830).

Frontispiece and title page of Women as They Are, or the Manners of the Day, volume 2. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (1830).

Cover of the first instalment of Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans (March 1852).

Frontispiece and title page of Bleak House. London: Chapman & Hall (1853).

The main promenade of Luna Park during daytime, from Boredom, The Independent Magazine(August 8, 1907), 312.

Luna Park at night, from Boredom, The Independent Magazine(August 8, 1907), 315.

Oran from the fort of Santa Cruz (1930). Photograph by M. Lavina.

Maison du Colon (c. 1940). Unknown photographer. Courtesy of the Muse de lHistoire vivanteMontreuil.

Press release for the symposium The International StyleDeath or Metamorphosis? (1961). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Architectural League of New York records, 1880s1974; 1960 League-Sponsored Functions and Events. Box 88. Folder 39, New Forces in Architecture, 19601.

Invitation to the cocktail reception and dinner for the symposium The International StyleDeath or Metamorphosis? (1961). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Architectural League of New York records, 1880s1974; 1960 League-Sponsored Functions and Events. Box 88. Folder 39, New Forces in Architecture, 19601.

Press release titled Outspoken Briton Dislikes U.S. Architecture (March 24, 1961). Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 18661979 (bulk 194964), Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

ArchitectureFitting and Befitting, excerpts of the speeches delivered by Philip Johnson and Reyner Banham at the symposium The International StyleDeath or Metamorphosis? Architectural Forum(June 1961), 867.

First page of Los Angeles: The Ecologies of Evil. Artforum(December 1972), 67. Artforum.

First spread of Boredom, Domus605 (April 1980).

Second spread of Boredom, Domus605 (April 1980).

Third spread of Boredom, Domus605 (April 1980).

Construction of parking behind City Hall, Cleveland (1973). Photograph by Bernie Noble, from the Cleveland Press Collections. Courtesy of the Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections, Cleveland State University.

Aerial photo of Poletown General Motors plant, Detroit, Michigan (1986). BL004030. Michigan Bell Telephone Company Photographs, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.

Graph of the Ivan Illich Law of Diminishing Architecture (2002). Courtesy of Charles Jencks.

First spread of How Big is Bad? The Architectural Review(August 2002). Courtesy of The Architectural Review.

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At the onset, I anticipated that the study of boredom, architecture, and spatial experience would be isolating. Yet many people have contributed and accompanied this work, acting as two families.