Architecture's historical turn : phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern
Title:
Architecture's historical turn : phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern
Author:
Otero-Pailos, Jorge.
ISBN:
9780816666034
9780816666041
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 310 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Architectural intellectuality at the dawn of postmodernism -- A polygraph of architectural phenomenology -- Eucharistic architecture : Jean Labatut and the search for pure sensation -- LSDesign : Charles W. Moore and the delirious interior -- Photo[historio]graphy : Christian Norberg-Schulz's demotion of textual history -- Surplus experience : Kenneth Frampton and the subterfuges of bourgeois taste -- Epilogue: After architectural phenomenology.
Abstract:
This text traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.