Moody Attunement in Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical City

Overly pragmatic conceptions of the city pose a threat to the urban public realm. The Surrealist view offers an alternative. It is explored here by architectural theorist and historian Dagmar Motycka Weston , Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, through the work of the Greek‐Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, which posits other ways to conceive of cities – particularly in relation to the German Romantic notion of ‘moody attunement’ ( Stimmung ).