| Description |
187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Consuming Signs / Mike Gane. -- -- Introduction: Philosophy as a Commodity: Mode d’Emploi / Francesco Proto. -- -- The Aesthetics and the Machine / Francesco Proto. -- Cheese-(beau)burger Post-orgasmic chill Pop-nography. -- The Prozac effect Disneyland: one-way ticket The emperor’s new clothes. -- ========= -- Chapter One: -- -- Absolute Architecture. -- The Singular Objects of Architecture. -- Radicality Singular objects in architecture Illusion. -- Virtuality. Reality. A destabilized area Concept. Irresolution. -- Vertigo Values of functionalism. -- New York or Utopia Architecture: between nostalgia and anticipation. -- (Always) seduction. Provocation. Secrets The aesthetics of modernity. -- A heroic architectural act? Art, architecture and postmodernity. -- Visual disappointment. Intellectual disappointment The aesthetics of disappearance. -- ========== -- Chapter Two: -- Cool Cities. -- America. - Salt Lake City New York Santa Barbara Venice and Porterville Disneyland. -- The Bonaventure Hotel The realized utopia. -- Cool Memories I (1980-85). -- Urbino. Gubbio. Mantua Trieste Palermo Pompeii Montreal Tower blocks. -- Vélizy Vélizy 2 Versailles. St Peter The Pompidou Centre Urban monsters. -- Paris Berlin Rome in December Night on the cities Dunkirk Ideal City. -- Fifth Avenue Suburban comfort. -- Cool Memories II (1987-90). -- American towns Rio Buenos Aires Puerto Stroessner Sites of fascination. -- Venice (California) Los Angeles Marilyn’s grave Salt Lake City. Las Vegas. -- Disneyworld Beyond Las Vegas Venice (California). New York. Lisbon. -- Shop windows Shop windows 2 Arche de la Défense Coupole São Paulo-- . Copacabana. -- Cool Memories III (1992-95). -- Venice Puerto Vallarta Bern. Zurich Brasilia Brasilia’s satellites. -- Free zones’ farce American campuses Pointe du Raz Copacabana. -- Montreal. Rio Pompeii Luxembourg Gardens. - Cool Memories IV (1995-2002). -- New York. Tierra del Fuego New York Naples Pompeii Disney Company. -- Future Cities St Petersburg Bogotá Buenos Aires Palacio Itamarati. -- California Villa Palagonia (Palermo) Villa Palagonia II. -- ========== -- Chapter Three: -- The Indifference of Space. -- Le Parc de la Villette. -- Urbanism and architecture. -- ========== -- Chapter Four: -- The Code and the Eye. -- Simulations. -- Hyperreal and imaginary [Disneyland] The stucco angel [Baroque Architecture]. -- The tactile and the digital [World Trade Center]. -- Trompe l’Oeil or enchanted simulation [Duke of Urbino’s and Federico. -- da Montefeltro’s studiolos]. - Ecstasy and inertia [Pompeii]. -- ==========-- Chapter Five: -- The Rise of the Object: the End of Culture. - The Formal Liturgy of the Object . The consumer society. Profusion and display. - The drugstore. Parly 2 Hypermarket and Hypercommodity Absolute Advertising. - Ground Zero Advertising Mass (Sociology of) Mass languages -- A structure of modernity An operational language - Beyond truth and falsehood The internal logic of this neo-language. -- ========== -- Chapter Six: -- The Ideology of Technique. -- Technique as social practice The organization, as myth, of technique. - Conclusion: ‘technique totally in the service of everyday life?’ - Ephemeral and Durable The irony of Technology The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion or Deterrence? -- ========== -- Chapter Seven:-- --The Aesthetic Suicide. -- Questions of Strategy Truth or Radicality: The Future of Architecture. -- The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture: an interview with Jean Baudrillard. -- Aesthetics and design The lost language of seduction - Success in architecture Duchamp in architecture The object as a sign Space as a thought. - Baudrillard, Perspective and the Void of Architecture / Rex Butler and Keith Broadfoot -- -- |
| Subject |
Architecture and society.
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Architecture and society. |
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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Architecture, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Philosophy. |
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Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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Architecture -- Aesthetics. |
| Added Author |
Proto, Francesco.
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| Added Title |
Architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard |
| ISBN |
0470027150 |
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