Description: Very good condition. No tears, missing pages, or stains. One owner, one reader. In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the 20th century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individual architects—Peter Eisenman (b. 1932), Arata Isozaki (b. 1931), Rem Koolhaas (b. 1944), Stanley Tigerman (b. 1930), and Robert Venturi (b. 1925)—reveals the beginning of a phenomenology of irony in architecture. As Petit explains, irony is manifested in the work of these architects as an aesthetic tool, as existential comedy, and as cultural satire.Petit frames his discussion between the destruction of two utopian structures by architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986): the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis in 1972 and the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001. Meticulously researched and drawing widely from philosophy and literary criticism, Petit crafts a compelling case for the role of irony during a period when architects struggled to come to terms with significant contradictions within cultural modernity.
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Subject: Architecture
Literary Movement: Post-Modernism
Book Title: Irony; or, The Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Dust Jacket
Original Language: English
Genre: Art & Culture
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Length: 0.9in
Item Height: 0.1in
Item Width: 0.6in
Author: Emmanuel J. Petit
Publication Name: Irony; Or, the Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
