Main entry:

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.

Title & Author:

The singular objects of architecture / Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel ; translated by Robert Bononno ; foreword by K. Michael Hays.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002.

Description:

xv, 80 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
I. First interview : Radicality ; Singular objects in architecture ; Illusion, virtuality, reality - a destabilized area? ; Concept, irresolution, vertigo ; Creation and forgetfulness ; Values of functionalism ; New York or utopia ; Architecture: between nostalgia and anticipation ; (Always) seduction, provocation, secrets ; The metamorphosis of architecture ; The aesthetics of modernity ; Culture ; A heroic architectural act? ; Art, architecture, and postmodernity ; Visual disappointment, intellectual disappointment ; The aesthetics of disappearance ; Images of modernity ; The biology of the visible ; A new hedonism? -- II. Second interview : Truth in architecture ; Another tower for Beaubourg ; A shelter for culture? ; On modification: mutation or rehabilitation ; Architectural reason ; The city of tomorrow ; Virtual architecture, real architecture ; Computer modeling and architecture ; Lightness and heaviness ; What utopia? ; Architecture as the desire for omnipotence ; Berlin and Europe ; Architecture as the art of constraint ; Transparency ; Light as matter ; Disappearance ; What does architecture bear witness to? ; Singularity ; Neutrality, universality, and globalization ; Destiny and becoming ; The idea of architecture and history ; Another kind of wisdom ; The question of style ; Inadmissible complicity ; Freedom as self-realization.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. This enthusiastic dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers in philosophy and architecture today moves from these singular objects to problems of politics, identity, and aesthetics, and the exchange becomes an imaginative exploration of the possibilities of modern architecture and the future of modern life."
"This wide-ranging conversation bridges architecture and philosophy as Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel discuss such topics as the city of tomorrow and the ideal of transparency, the gentrification of New York City, and Frank Gehry's surprising Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Nouvel prompts Baudrillard to reflect on his signature concepts (the virtual, transparency, fatal strategies, oblivion, and seduction), and the confrontation between philosophical concerns and the specificity of architecture creates novel and striking formulations - and new ways of understanding the connections between the practitioner and the philosopher, the object and the idea."--Cover.

ISBN:

0816639124 (alk. paper)
9780816639120 (alk. paper)
0816639132 (paperback)
9780816639137

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architektur
Ästhetik
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Filosofische aspecten.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Nouvel, Jean, 1945-
Bononno, Robert, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225622
Call No.: NA44.N934.A35 2002
Status: Available