Architecture and ugliness : anti-aesthetics and the ugly in postmodern architecture /

"Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture - from brutalism to e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Acker, Wouter Van (Editor ), Mical, Thomas, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020.
Temas:
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architecture > Aesthetics.
Architecture postmoderne.
Architecture > Esthétique.
Postmodern.
Theory of architecture.
Architecture > Aesthetics
Architecture, Postmodern
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Retracing the Ugly and the Anti-aesthetic as a Productive Force in Postmodern Architecture
  • Wouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • 1. Ugliness, the anti-aesthetic and appropriation: with some remarks on the architecture of ARM
  • John Macarthur, (University of Queensland, Australia)
  • 2. On Ugliness (in Architecture)
  • Bart Verschaffel, (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • PART 1: UGLY AND MONSTROUS
  • 3. Instrumentalizing Ugliness: Parallels between High Victorian and Brutalist Architecture
  • Timothy M. Rohan, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
  • 4. Monstrous Becomings: A Minor Cartography
  • Heidi Sohn, (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
  • 5. Faux Monumentality in Ricardo Bofill's Les espaces d'Abraxas
  • Thomas Mical, (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
  • 6. Post-communism and the Monstrous: Skopje 2014 and Other Political Tales
  • Mirjana Lozanovska, (Deakin University, Australia)
  • 7. Here be Monsters
  • Andrew Leach, (The University of Sydney, Australia)
  • 8. To Make Monsters
  • Caroline O'Donnell, (Cornell University, USA)
  • PART 2: UGLY AND ORDINARY
  • 9. 'Ugly': The Architecture of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
  • Deborah Fausch
  • 10. Camp Ugliness: The Case of Charles W. Moore
  • Patricia A. Morton, (University of California, Riverside, USA)
  • 11. Architecture in El Alto: the Politics of Excess
  • Elisabetta Andreoli
  • 12. The Critical Kitsch of Alchimia and Memphis: Design by Media
  • AnnMarie Brennan, (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • 13. The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism's and Tendenza's Instrumentalization of Ugliness
  • Marianna Charitonidou, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
  • 14. Ugliness as Aesthetic Friction: Renewing Architecture Against the Grain
  • Lara Schrijver, (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • 15. Ugliness, or the Cathectic Moment of Modulation between Terror and the Comic in Postmodern Architecture
  • Wouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  • Index.

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