Title & Author:

Laughing at architecture : architectural histories of humour, satire and wit / edited by Michela Rosso.

Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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' : humourous 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.

ISBN:

9781350022782 hardcover alkaline paper
1350022780 hardcover alkaline paper
electronic book
9781350022751
ePub ebook
9781350022768

Subject:

Architecture Humor.
Architecture Caricatures and cartoons.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Caricatures and cartoons.
Humor.

Added entries:

Rosso, Michela, editor.
Rosso, Michela editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306916
Call No.: BIB 252458
Status: Available