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The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book

ISBN13: 9780789318022
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The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book

showcases three-dimensional replications of some of the most innovative modern and contemporary architecture from around the world. Accompanied by illustrations, photographs, and elaborate pop-ups, the talent and imagination of architects and builders of the modern era is brought to life. Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, the pages follow the development of modern architecture: the creation of new buildings and innovations that led to such feats as the Brooklyn Bridge; the birth of the skyscraper and the modern city; mid-century modernism, and the cutting-edge architecture of today. Modern Architecture Pop-Up features the following structures: Londonâ€™s Crystal Palace; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Eiffel Tower; New Yorkâ€™s Flatiron Building; Frank Lloyd Wrightâ€™s Robie House, Chicago; Reitveldâ€™s Schroeder House; Le Corbusierâ€™s Villa Savoye; Saarinenâ€™s TWA terminal; Frank Gehryâ€™s Guggenheim Bilbao; Calatravaâ€™s Milwaukee Art Museum; and Fosterâ€™s London "Gherkin" building, to name only a few. Innovative, informative, and elegant, Modern Architecture Pop-Up is an elegant visual tour of the worldâ€™s dynamic, inventive, and original architecture.

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Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde (Writing Architecture)

ISBN13: 9780262513029
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While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in Architecture's Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the "late avant-garde" as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own historical status, and deliberately exploring architecture's representational possibilities right up to their absolute limits. In close readings of the brooding, melancholy silence of Aldo Rossi, the radically reductive "decompositions" and archaeologies of Peter Eisenman, the carnivalesque excesses of John Hejduk, and the "cinegrammatic" delirium of Bernard Tschumi, Hays narrates the story of architecture confronting its own boundaries with objects of ever more reflexivity, difficulty, and intransigence.

The late avant-garde is the last architecture with philosophical aspirations, an architecture that could think philosophical problems through architecture rather than merely illustrate them. It takes architecture as the object of its own reflection, which in turn produces an unrelenting desire. Using the tools of critical theory together with the structure of Lacan's triad imaginary-symbolic-real, Hays constructs a theory of architectural desire that is historically specific and yet sets the terms and the challenges of all subsequent architectural practice, including today's.

Writing Architecture series

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