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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784741803321

Titolo

Critical architecture and contemporary culture / / editors, William J. Lillyman, Marilyn F. Moriarty, David J. Neuman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994

ISBN

0-19-772361-6

1-280-52641-6

0-19-536016-8

1-4294-0559-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

LillymanWilliam J

MoriartyMarilyn F

NeumanDavid J

Disciplina

724/.6

Soggetti

Deconstructivism (Architecture)

Architecture, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Search for Common Ground; I: ARCHITECTURE AND THEORY; 1. Beginning from the Ground Up; 2. Letter to Peter Eisenman; 3. Post/El Cards: A Reply to Jacques Derrida; II: ARCHITECTURE AND REPRESENTATION; Introduction: On Representation; 4. The Postmodern Continuum; 5. James Gamble Rogers and the Pragmatics of Architectural Representation; III: ARCHITECTURE AND CONVENTIONS; Introduction: Critical and Artistic Conventions; 6. Terragni, Conventions, and the Critics; 7. Montage, Collage, and Broken Narrative; IV: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY; 8. Socially Motivated Architecture

9. User-Oriented Architecture; V: AFTER POSTMODERNISM; 10. Keynote Address; 11. A Postmodern Fable on Postmodernity, or: In the Megalopolis; Postscript: The Ground Is No Longer Flat: Postmodernity from Architecture to Philosophy; Biographical Notes

Sommario/riassunto

This volume, evolving from a recent symposium, brings together a group of prominent literary theorists and architects to discuss the entente between postmodernism and architecture.