Irony, or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture /
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| Author / Creator: | Petit, Emmanuel, 1973- |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013, ©2013. |
| Description: | x, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9043423 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Towering Irony
- Intoxicated with Dialectics
- Points of View
- Re-Theorizing Postmodernism
- Exergue: Architectural Gravity or Space for Irony
- Chapter 2. Robert Venturi and Denise Scon Brown
- Mature Modernism: Le Corbusier's Dauphin
- Gravity of the Humanist Viewpoint
- American Anti-Hero
- "Architects Today Are Too Educated"
- Complexity and (New) Criticism
- Amoral Aestheticist Twists of the Image
- Jester-Architect
- American Hyper-Realism: Caricature
- "International of Irony"
- Chapter 3. Stanley Tigerman
- Aesthetic Devotees or Ethic Libertines
- Credo des refusés
- Architecture's Irreparable Wound
- Swerving Humor
- The Sexual Shed
- Miesian Nebulosity
- ArchiLife
- An/architectural Erring
- Chapter 4. Arata Isozaki
- Singular Image
- Allegory: Ruined Body
- Retractive Manifesto
- Suspended Translations
- Fall of Ideas
- Design-a-Being
- Schizophrenic Eclecticism
- Absolute Nothingness
- Chapter 5. Peter Eisenman
- Theory: Space of Division
- Denial of Self-Identity
- Hollow Figure
- Écriture Double
- Dissimulating Fictions
- Empty Rhetoric: Le pas au-delà
- Self-Disintegration
- Chapter 6. Rem Koolhaas
- Transvaluated Social Contracts
- Detached Insider Disciplinary Verwindung
- Sequential Truths
- Simulated Exodus
- Meta-Stable Freezones
- Leaping from the Impasse of Reflection
- Meta-Modem Theory
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Illustration Credits
