Space of Appearance

Name: Space of Appearance
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ISBN: 9780262023788

ISBN-10: 0262023784

ISBN-13: 9780262023788

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Baird

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What is architecture's place in the world? Combining history, theory, and polemic, George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure of these theories to develop an architecture that is politically engaged and affirmative of the public sphere. Hannah Arendt's imperative of worldliness plays a pivotal role in Baird's reading of what has come to be called architecture's belief system. It is not enough, he argues, to reject the totalizing models of publicness that have been typical both of modernism and of many of its postmodern successors. Rather, he…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/23/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 409
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Life as a Work of Art



Early Struggles in the Phenomenology of Modernism



"The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands"



Instruments and Monuments



Panopticism



Organicist Yearnings and Their Consequences



Architecture and Politics



"The Space of Appearance"


Notes


Index