Anti-architecture and deconstruction / Nikos A. Salingaros ; with Christopher Alexander [and others].

Main entry:

Salingaros, Nikos Angelos.

Title & Author:

Anti-architecture and deconstruction / Nikos A. Salingaros ; with Christopher Alexander [and others].

Publication:

Description:

209 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Chapter annotations by Michael Blowhard (pseud.).
Collection of essays previously published in print and Internet journals.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreward / James Stevens Curl -- "Some thoughts on culpability" / James Kalb -- Introd. / Michael Blowhard -- The danger of deconstructionism -- Charles Jenck & the new paradigm in architecture -- Deconstructing the Devons / with Michael Mehaffy -- Death, life, and Liebeskind / with Brian Hanson -- Warped space -- Anti-architecture and religion -- Twentieth-century architecture as a cult -- The Derrida virus -- Background material for "The Derrida virus" -- The new Acropolis Museum -- Architectural theory & the work of Bernard Tschumi -- Christopher Alexander & the new architecture (incl. an interview with Christopher Alexander) -- Endnote / Lucien Steil.

Summary:

"The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise. Modernists, notably the Bauhäusler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before. Yet, at times, they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious historical ancestry to their aims and creations. These questionable links and precedents are now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their supporters.

ISBN:

3937954015
9783937954011

Subject:

Deconstructivism (Architecture) Influence.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural criticism.
Déconstructivisme (Architecture) Influence.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Critique d'architecture.
architectural criticism.
Architecture, Modern
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Deconstruction.

Added entries:

Alexander, Christopher, 1936-2022.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240662
Call No.: BIB 170581
Status: Available

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