Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture.
Title:
Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture.
Author:
Lillyman, William J.
ISBN:
9780195360165
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Series:
University of California Humanities Research Institute Series
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Search for Common Ground -- I: ARCHITECTURE AND THEORY -- 1. Beginning from the Ground Up -- 2. Letter to Peter Eisenman -- Lettre à 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.
Abstract:
The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture. The contributors include such luminaries fromthe forefront of literary studies as J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard; the architects Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Robert Stern offer their perspectives on the critical role of architecture and contemporary culture. The high caliber of the discourse and the variety ofapproaches included will draw a scholarly audience from a wide range of disciplines.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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