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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lillyman, William J., editor.

Moriarty, Marilyn F., editor.

Neuman, David J., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstructivism (Architecture).

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772361-6

1-280-52641-6

0-19-536016-8

1-4294-0559-7

OCLC:

226376729