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The Dissolution of Place - Architecture, Identity, and the Body (Paperback)
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The Dissolution of Place - Architecture, Identity, and the Body (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality,
historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen
as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist
architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many
interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This
book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry
to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has
been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well
as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public
and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of
postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and
postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new
relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of
architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific
modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates
architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American
and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of
the built environment. In dealing specifically with the
intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic
definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and
racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking
insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial
thinking in general.
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