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Author:   Jassen Callender (Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781138958197

ISBN 10:   1138958190
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Epilogue: Today in the Beginning… Part 1: Architecture in an Information Age 1. 21st Century Trajectories 2. Modernity’s Legacy in a New Millennium 3. A Postmodern Profession, circa 1991 4. Formal or Phenomenological: a feud between forms of information 5. Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the São Pedro 6. Mies van der Rohe in Chicago 7. Language Games 8. Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace Interlude: The Information Reformation, or This Killed That … Part 2: Architecture in Eras of Meaning 9. 16 June 1904: Ulysses and the Uncanny 10. Marx, Meaning, and Matter 11. Exchange and Evolution 12. In What Style: epistemes and monsters 13. The Précis and the Paternity of Perception 14. De Sade versus Descartes: competing conceptions of language 15. The Tense of Abstract Nouns 16. Vitruvian Cycles 1: representations against space 17. Vitruvian Cycles 2: physical language and shared experience Prologue: Babel… Further Reading Image Credits Index

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In an uneasy age, where holding the `centre' seems frighteningly unlikely, this carefully reasoned book argues that our most salient architectural problem is the estrangement of modern buildings from those who see and occupy them. A challenging read, it both sprawls out over and mines deep into difficult writings. Yet it remains accessible due to lucid prose, the construction of chapters to both cogently stand alone and operate serially, and its convincing intertwining of architectural examples with philosophical arguments. - Michael Fazio, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Mississippi State University, USA

In an uneasy age, where holding the 'centre' seems frighteningly unlikely, this carefully reasoned book argues that our most salient architectural problem is the estrangement of modern buildings from those who see and occupy them. A challenging read, it both sprawls out over and mines deep into difficult writings. Yet it remains accessible due to lucid prose, the construction of chapters to both cogently stand alone and operate serially, and its convincing intertwining of architectural examples with philosophical arguments. - Michael Fazio, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Mississippi State University, USA

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Jassen Callender is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Director of Mississippi State University’s Jackson Center, in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.

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