World's greatest architect : making, meaning, and network culture /

Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are ofte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Architecture and society > History > 21st century.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Architecture et société > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Villes.
cities.
ARCHITECTURE > History.
Architecture and society
Cities and towns
ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Kicking the bottle
  • Paper wonders
  • Viva Venturi
  • Sin no more
  • Loveliest of trees
  • Alberti's anniversary
  • The Net has a thousand eyes
  • Surveillance cookbook
  • Forget foreign wars
  • Everyday low
  • Texas chain store
  • Right place at the wrong time
  • Best practices
  • Mama don't take my megapixels
  • Instruments and algorithms
  • Theory of black holes
  • Elegy in a landfill
  • Theory of everything
  • Deep focus
  • Dappled things
  • - Morphology of the biopic
  • Little blue coupe
  • Bicycle socialism
  • Faux book
  • Man of steel
  • It's not easy
  • Imagined Wall Street
  • The eagle flies
  • Architectural assassination
  • Urban plastination
  • Civic immunology
  • World's greatest architect.

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