Critical architecture and contemporary culture /

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Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Description:	1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Deconstructivism (Architecture) Architecture, Modern -- 20th century. Architecture, Modern. Deconstructivism (Architecture) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11163269

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Other authors / contributors:	Lillyman, William J. Moriarty, Marilyn F. Neuman, David J.
ISBN:	0195078195 9780195078190 0195360168 9780195360165 9780195360165 1280526416 9781280526411 9786610526413 6610526419
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Critical architecture and contemporary culture. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

Table of 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.

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