Title: Architecture's historical turn : phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern /
Authors: Otero-Pailos, Jorge.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Architecture Philosophy History; Postmodernism.
Abstract: This text traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.
Contents: Introduction. Architectural intellectuality at the dawn of postmodernism -- A polygraph of architectural phenomenology -- Eucharistic architecture : Jean Labatut and the search for pure sensation -- LSDesign : Charles W. Moore and the delirious interior -- Photo[historio]graphy : Christian Norberg-Schulz's demotion of textual history -- Surplus experience : Kenneth Frampton and the subterfuges of bourgeois taste -- Epilogue. After architectural phenomenology.