03064nam0 22003613i 450 VAN016211920210617123400.286978-13-500-6823-0N978135006826120210615d2020 |0itac50 baengGB|||| |||||Architecture and uglinessanti-aesthetics and the ugly in Postmodern architectureedited by Wouter Van Acker and Thomas MicalLondon [etc.]Bloomsbury Visual Arts2020XIV, 285 p.ill.24 cmWhatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture - from brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions - and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern architecture and design. The essays address both broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics, as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century, addressing the relation between the aesthetic register of ugliness and aesthetic concepts such as brutalism, kitsch, the formless, ad hoc-ism, the monstrous, or the grotesque. The aim of this volume is not simply to document the history of a postmodern anti-aesthetic through case studies. Instead, it aims to shed light on an aesthetic problem that has been largely overlooked in the agenda of architectural theory, the question if and how ugliness can be of interest to architecture; or if and how architecture can make good use of ugliness.VAN0162121Architecture and ugliness : anti-aesthetics and the ugly in Postmodern architecture2553420Architecture, Architectural Theory, Culture and Criticism, Architectural HistoryVANC036331ARGBLondonVANL000015AckerWouter VanVANV146099MicalThomasVANV146098BloomsburyeditoreVANV144572Bloomsbury AcademicBloomsbury <editore>VANV146605Bloomsbury Visual ArtsBloomsbury <editore>VANV146611ITSOL20230616RICAhttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/architecture-and-ugliness-anti-aesthetics-and-the-ugly-in-postmodern-architecture/E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o Shibboleth.BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E DISEGNO INDUSTRIALEIT-CE0107VAN01NVAN0162119BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE01CONS E-BOOK SBAARCH 01EBA162119 20210615 E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o Shibboleth.Architecture and ugliness2553420UNICAMPANIA