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Author:   Wouter Van Acker (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) ,  Professor Thomas Mical (University of South Australia, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9781350068230

ISBN 10:   1350068233
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Retracing the Ugly and the Anti-aesthetic as a Productive Force in Postmodern Architecture Wouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 1. Ugliness, the anti-aesthetic and appropriation: with some remarks on the architecture of ARM John Macarthur, (University of Queensland, Australia) 2. On Ugliness (in Architecture) Bart Verschaffel, (Ghent University, Belgium) PART 1: UGLY AND MONSTROUS 3. Instrumentalizing Ugliness: Parallels between High Victorian and Brutalist Architecture Timothy M. Rohan, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) 4. Monstrous Becomings: A Minor Cartography Heidi Sohn, (TU Delft, the Netherlands) 5. Faux Monumentality in Ricardo Bofill’s Les espaces d'Abraxas Thomas Mical,(Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) 6. Post-communism and the Monstrous: Skopje 2014 and Other Political Tales Mirjana Lozanovska, (Deakin University, Australia) 7. Here be Monsters Andrew Leach, (The University of Sydney, Australia) 8. To Make Monsters Caroline O’Donnell, (Cornell University, USA) PART 2: UGLY AND ORDINARY 9. ‘Ugly’: The Architecture of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Deborah Fausch 10. Camp Ugliness: The Case of Charles W. Moore Patricia A. Morton, (University of California, Riverside, USA) 11. Architecture in El Alto: the Politics of Excess Elisabetta Andreoli 12. The Critical Kitsch of Alchimia and Memphis: Design by Media AnnMarie Brennan, (University of Melbourne, Australia) 13. The Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism’s and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness Marianna Charitonidou, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) 14. Ugliness as Aesthetic Friction: Renewing Architecture Against the Grain Lara Schrijver, (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 15. Ugliness, or the Cathectic Moment of Modulation between Terror and the Comic in Postmodern Architecture Wouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Index

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A wonderfully rich and stimulating collection of essays, which plumbs the fraught nooks and crannies of the ugly's discursive terrain. Taken together, the detailed case studies build a satisfyingly variegated account of the complex play of fascination and repulsion that attends aberrant form and architecture's negotiations with it since the mid-twentieth century. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK * Mak[es] clearer the development of and deployment of ugliness in architecture and elucidates just how murky and rich the concept can be ... A worthwhile and very rewarding read. * Fabrications *

A wonderfully rich and stimulating collection of essays, which plumbs the fraught nooks and crannies of the ugly's discursive terrain. Taken together, the detailed case studies build a satisfyingly variegated account of the complex play of fascination and repulsion that attends aberrant form and architecture's negotiations with it since the mid-twentieth century. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK *

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Wouter Van Acker is Associate Professor in Architectural Theory and History at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thomas Mical is Professor of Architectural Theory and Head of the School of Art and Design of Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the author of Surrealism and Architecture (2004).

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