Main entry:

Petit, Emmanuel, 1973-

Title & Author:

Irony, or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture / Emmanuel Petit.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Description:

x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-244) and index.
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.

Summary:

This book addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. This title reveals the beginning of a phenomenology of irony in architecture.

ISBN:

9780300181517 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300181515 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Postmodern Themes, motives.
Irony.
Architecture postmoderne Thèmes, motifs.
Ironie.
irony.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Ironi.
Postmodernism (arkitektur)

Added entries:

Self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282636
Call No.: BIB 220323
Status: Available