Main entry:

Otero-Pailos, Jorge.

Title & Author:

Architecture's historical turn : phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern / Jorge Otero-Pailos.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxxiv, 310 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architectural intellectuality at the dawn of postmodernism -- A polygraph of architectural phenomenology -- Eucharistic architecture : Jean Labatut and the search for pure sensation -- LSDesign : Charles W. Moore and the delirious interior -- Photo[historio]graphy : Christian Norberg-Schulz's demotion of textual history -- Surplus experience : Kenneth Frampton and the subterfuges of bourgeois taste -- Epilogue: After architectural phenomenology.

Summary:

This text traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.

ISBN:

9780816666034 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816666041 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816666032 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816666040 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy History 20th century.
Postmodernism.
Architecture Philosophie Histoire 20e siècle.
Postmodernisme.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Postmoderne.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266992
Call No.: BIB 199039
Status: Available