Baudrillard for architects / Francesco Proto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proto, Francesco, author.

Series:

Thinkers for architects ; 16.

Thinkers for architects ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.

Baudrillard, Jean.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xv, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"The impact of Baudrillard's thought on architecture has often been marginalized due to his work being so difficult to read, but this book makes accessible an explanation of Baudrillard's philosophical concepts through the prism of architecture, showing how they are relevant to architecture today. Presenting an introductory but in-depth assessment and critique of Baudrillard's interest in architecture, key concepts such as the object and the code, seduction and hyper-reality, obscenity and terrorism, and cultural consumption are highlighted here. The book emphasises how the mutual concerns of cultural theory and architecture provide a fruitful ground for debate. This is an approach which students and practitioners in architecture will benefit immensely from - focusing on the contradictions inherent in contemporary architecture in the light of Baudrillard's work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Planet Baudrillard p. 1

Decoding Baudrillard p. 1

Theory as symbolic violence p. 2

Structuralist imprinting p. 4

The modern ambience p. 5

1 The alibi of function p. 7

The consumerist agenda p. 7

The fashion system p. 8

Functionalization and semiotic abstraction p. 10

The domestic ambience p. 13

A modern material p. 18

Class strategies p. 19

The failed emulation p. 21

2 Semiotic disarticulations p. 24

Beyond the sign system p. 24

Second-order significations p. 24

Barthes' Eiffel Tower p. 26

The Troy horse of culture p. 28

A hyper-functionalist failure p. 30

The architectural 'whatsit' p. 31

3 Profusion and display p. 38

Size matters p. 38

The department store p. 39

Magical salivation p. 42

Le Drugstore p. 45

Parly 2 p. 47

4 The metro area p. 52

Consuming the environment p. 52

Hypermarkets p. 53

Super-objects and hyper-commodities p. 56

The end of perspective p. 58

An integrated circuit p. 59

Atomic nucleus, black box and power station p. 65

5 Reality as-if p. 69

Challenging reality p. 69

Hyperreality p. 71

Eco's Disneyland p. 74

Gottdiener's Disneyland p. 75

Baudrillard's Disneyland p. 77

Baroque deceptions p. 81

6 The global imaginary p. 87

An architectural catastrophe p. 87

Godzilla's precession p. 89

Doubling reality p. 92

Architectural genetics p. 94.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Proto, Francesco, Baudrillard for architects

ISBN:

9780415508858

0415508851

9780415508865

041550886X

OCLC:

1114281180