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Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, this book has become a reference in architectural literature. "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" expresses the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's(...)
Complexity and contradiction in architecture
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Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, this book has become a reference in architectural literature. "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" expresses the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Inside the postmodern wonderland of the Shonandai Cultural Center, Japan's first large-scale public facility to be designed by a female architect The first major public project by Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa (born 1941), the Shonandai Cultural Center is notable in its attempt to refute modernism by returning to a '60s techno-avant-garde.
Itsuko Hasegawa: Shonandai – Exposing the World. Everything without content 242
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Inside the postmodern wonderland of the Shonandai Cultural Center, Japan's first large-scale public facility to be designed by a female architect The first major public project by Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa (born 1941), the Shonandai Cultural Center is notable in its attempt to refute modernism by returning to a '60s techno-avant-garde.
Architecture Monographs
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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166 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Frankfurt am Main : Syndikat, ©1984.
Architektur und Avantgarde : ein vergessenes Projekt der Moderne? / Michael Müller.
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166 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Frankfurt am Main : Syndikat, ©1984.
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287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje, ©1996.
Architektur : Texte zur Geschichte, Theorie und Kritik des Bauens / Heinrich Klotz.
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Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje, ©1996.
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia offers a detailed account of the ways in which the work of architects and designers can speak to the contemporary condition. Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
April 2010
Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia offers a detailed account of the ways in which the work of architects and designers can speak to the contemporary condition. Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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271 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Basel : Birkhauser, [2020], ©2020
Iheartblob : augmented architectural objects : a new visual language / IoA Institute of Architecture (ed.) ; Aleksandra Belitskaja, Benjamin James, Shaun McCallum.
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Basel : Birkhauser, [2020], ©2020
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236 pages ; 21 cm.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press ; London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2017.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press ; London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2017.
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399 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 17 cm
Montreal ; Amsterdam : The Architecture Observer, [2023], ©2023
Modern architecture : a planetary warming history / Hans Ibelings.
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Montreal ; Amsterdam : The Architecture Observer, [2023], ©2023
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399 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Gütersloh ; Berlin : Bauverlag ; Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019], ©2019
Aldo Rossis Konstruktion des Wirklichen : eine Architekturtheorie mit Widersprüchen / Angelika Schnell.
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Gütersloh ; Berlin : Bauverlag ; Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019], ©2019