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Architecture and Ugliness - Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (Paperback)
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Architecture and Ugliness - Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture (Paperback)
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Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in
architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated,
either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book
presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture
- from brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions -
and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory
of postmodern architecture and design. The essays address both
broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics,
as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural
examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century,
addressing the relation between the aesthetic register of ugliness
and aesthetic concepts such as brutalism, kitsch, the formless, ad
hoc-ism, the monstrous, or the grotesque. Architecture and Ugliness
not only documents the history of a postmodern anti-aesthetic
through a diverse set of case studies, it also sheds valuable light
on an aesthetic problem which has been largely overlooked in
architectural discourse. It is essential reading for all students
and scholars with an interest in postmodern architectural history,
architectural theory and aesthetics.
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