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Behind the Postmodern Facade
Author | : Magali Sarfatti Larson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2024-07-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520413970 |
Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993 with a paperback edition in 1995.
Behind the Postmodern Facade
Author | : Magali Sarfatti Larson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2024-07-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520377206 |
Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993 with a paperback edition in 1995.
Architecture
Author | : Dana Cuff |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262531122 |
Dana Cuff delves into the architect's everyday world in "Architecture" to uncover an intricate social art of design, resulting in a new portrait of the profession that sheds light on what it means to become an architect.
Postmodern Architecture
Author | : Owen Hopkins |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-02-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780714878126 |
A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity This unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that 'less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. Postmodern Architecture showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Author | : Robert Venturi |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780870702822 |
Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
The History of Postmodern Architecture
Author | : Heinrich Klotz |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
provides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism
Beyond the Postmodern Facade
Author | : Amy Lyn Gerbrandt |
Publisher | : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
1980 Venice Architecture Biennale Exhibiting the Postmodern
Author | : Lea Catherine Szacka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781472458162 |
The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism
Author | : Kevin J. H. Dettmar |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299150648 |
For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading Joyce - useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap across those limits into postmodernism, where the pleasures and possibilities of an unsuspected Joyce are yet to be found. Kevin J. H. Dettmar begins by articulating a stylistics of postmodernism drawn from the key texts of Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Read within this framework, Dubliners emerges from behind its modernist facade as the earliest product of Joyce's proto-post-modernist sensibility. Dettmar exposes these stories as tales of mystery, not mastery, despite the modernist earmarks of plentiful symbols, allusions, and epiphanies. Ulysses, too, has been inadequately served by modernist critics. Where they have emphasized the work's ingenious Homeric structure, Dettmar focuses instead upon its seams, those points at which the narrative willfully, joyfully overflows its self-imposed bounds. Finally, he reads A Portrait of the Artist and Finnegans Wake as less playful, less daring texts - the first constrained by the precious, would be poet at its center, the last marking a surprising retreat from the constantly evolving, vertiginous experience of Ulysses.