Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 1994
222 pages
978-0-19-536016-5 (ISBN)
Description
The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture. The contributors include such luminaries from the forefront of literary studies as J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard; the architects Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Robert Stern offer their perspectives on the critical role of architecture and contemporary culture. The high caliber of the discourse and the variety of approaches included will draw a scholarly audience from a wide range of disciplines.
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William J. Lillyman | Marilyn F. Moriarty | David J. Neuman
Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture
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05/1994
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: The Search for Common Ground
- I: ARCHITECTURE AND THEORY
- 1. Beginning from the Ground Up
- 2. Letter to Peter Eisenman
- Lettre à 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
