Recently published by Routledge, Caroline Dionne’s book Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll—from his well known nonsense fiction such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two short pamphlets on architecture. Through an interdisciplinary method that draws on key moments in our philosophical tradition, including literary and language theories, phenomenology, and sociospatial theories, the book interrogates the relationship between words and spaces, highlighting the crucial role of language in processes of placemaking.
