Architecture's historical turn
Subtitle: phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern
By: Jorge Otero-Pailos
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780816666034; 9780816666041
Other titles: Phenomenology and the rise of the postmodern
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Architectural intellectuality at the dawn of postmodernism; title: A polygraph of architectural phenomenology; title: Eucharistic architecture : Jean Labatut and the search for pure sensation; title: LSDesign : Charles W. Moore and the delirious interior; title: Photo[historio]graphy : Christian Norberg-Schulz's demotion of textual history; title: Surplus experience : Kenneth Frampton and the subterfuges of bourgeois taste; title: Epilogue. After architectural phenomenology.