Laughing at architecture : architectural histories of humour, satire and wit /

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosso, Michela (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
Temas:
Architecture > Humor.
Architecture > Caricatures and cartoons.
Architecture.
Cultural studies.
Theory of architecture.
Humour.
History of architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Caricatures and cartoons.
Humor.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Humour : a lens for the architectural and urban historian / Michela Rosso
  • Laughing at the baroque : a drawing and some texts compared / Susanna Pasquali
  • From reportage to ridicule : satirizing the building industry in the eighteenth-century Irish press / Conor Lucey
  • The thorn of scorn : John Nash and his All Souls Church for a transformed regency London / Daniela Roberts
  • 'A joke that has gone on far too long' : mocking the completion of the New Hôtel des Postes de Paris (1886-1888) / Guy Lambert
  • Deconstructing Gaudí : entangled relationships between satire and architectural criticism / Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes
  • Confronting problems with a sense of humour : Adolf Loos's architectural polemics and Viennese journalism / Ruth Hanisch
  • Words and images of contempt : Il Selvaggio on Architecture (1926-1942) / Michela Rosso
  • Osbert Lancaster : architectural humour in the time of functionalism / Alan Powers
  • Irrational interiors : the modern domestic landscape seen in caricatures / Gabriele Neri
  • From 'Little Russia' to 'Planet of the Apes' : nicknaming twentieth-century mass housing in Belgium / Evert Vandeweghe
  • Saul Steinberg's 'graph paper architecture' : humorous drawings and diagrams as instruments of critique / Christoph Lueder
  • The modern city through the mirror of humour : a different portrait / Olivier Ratouis
  • Splendid?! Preposterous! Chinese artists mock the architectural spectacle / Angela Becher.

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