Irony, or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Towering irony ; Intoxicated with dialectics ; Points of view ; Re-theorizing postmodernism ; Exergue: architectural gravity or space for irony
- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown : Mature modernism: Le Corbusier's dauphin ; Gravity of the humanist viewpoint ; American anti-hero ; "Architects today are too educated" ; Complexity and (new) criticism ; Amoral aestheticist twists of the image ; Jester-architecture ; American hyper-realism: caricature ; "International of irony"
- Stanley Tigerman : Aesthetic devotees or ethic libertines ; Credo and refusés ; Architecture's irreparable wound ; Swerving humor ; The sexual shed ; Miesian nebulostiy ; ArchiLife ; An/architectural erring
- Arata Isozaki : Singular image ; Allegory: ruined body ; Retractive manifesto ; Suspended translations ; Fall of ideas ; Design-a-being ; Schizophrenic eclecticism ; Absolute nothingness
- Peter Eisenman : Theory: space of division ; Denial of self-identity ; Hollow figure ; Écriture double ; Dissimulating fictions ; Empty rhetoric: le pas au-delà ; Self-disintegration
- Rem Koolhaas : Transvaluated social contracts ; Detached insider ; Disciplinary Verwindung ; Sequential truths ; Simulated exodus ; Meta-stable freezones ; Leaping from the impasse of reflection ; Meta-modern theory
- Epilogue.