Main entry:

Baird, George.

Title & Author:

The space of appearance / George Baird.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.

Description:

xi, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-388) and index.
Ch. 1. Life as a Work of Art -- Ch. 2. Early Struggles in the Phenomenology of Modernism -- Ch. 3. "The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands" -- Ch. 4. Instruments and Monuments -- Ch. 5. Panopticism -- Ch. 6. Organicist Yearnings and Their Consequences -- Ch. 7. Architecture and Politics -- Ch. 8. "The Space of Appearance."

Summary:

Focuses on specific historical episodes or developments. Each chapter outlines a different controversy or series of controversies, or depicts the gradual and insidious erosion of certain firmly held architectural beliefs. Each chapter is also structured around a conceptual account of issues that have evolved in contemporary cultural theory since the interventions of Arendt in the 1950s.

ISBN:

0262023784 (alk. paper)
9780262023788 (alk. paper)
0262523434
9780262523431

Subject:

Symbolism in architecture.
Structuralism (Architecture)
Architecture, Postmodern.
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Structuralism.
Architecture postmoderne.
Structuralisme.
Déconstructivisme (Architecture)
Symbolisme en architecture.
Structuralisme (Architecture)
structuralism.
Postmodern.
Deconstructivist.
structures (single built works)
structures (structural elements)
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Moderne
Postmoderne
Bouwkunst.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Moderniteit.
Postmodernisme.
Structuralisme (architecture)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104243
Call No.: ID NA2500.B24; ID:94-B1948
Status: Available