Irony, or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture
- New Haven, London Yale University Press 2013
- 262p.
WORD/2025/CRB/1766, Word Bookshop
AcknowledgmentsVii,Chapter 1 Introduction,Towering Lrony Intoxicated with Dialectics
points of view Re-Theorizing Postmodernism Exergue: Architectural Gravity Or Space For Irony p.30, Chapter 2 Robert Venturi And Denise Scott Brown Mature Modernism: Le Corbusier's Dauphin Gravity of the Humanist ViewpointAmerican 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" p.72, Chapter3 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 p.116, Chapter4 Arata Isozaki Singular Lmage,Allegory: Ruined Body,Retractive Manifesto\,Suspended Translations Fall Of Ldeas Design-A-Being,Schizophrenic Eclecticism, Absolute Nothingness p.146, Chapter 5 Peter Eisenman Theory: Space Of Division,Denial Of Self-Ldentity ,Hollow Figure, Écriture Double,Dissimulating Fictions,Empty Rhetoric: Le Pas Au-Delà, Self-Disintegration p.176, 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-Modern Theory p.211, Epilogue p.212, Notes p.216, Index p.245, Illustration Credits p.261.