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Utopia´s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again
Reinhold Martin
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia's Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insights into cultural postmodernism and its aftermath. Much of today's discussion has turned to the recovery of modernity, but Martin writes in the Introduction, Simply to historicize postmodernism seems inadequate and, in many ways, premature. Utopia's Ghost connects architecture to current debates on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and corporate globalization ... Read more
Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia's Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insights into cultural postmodernism and its aftermath. Much of today's discussion has turned to the recovery of modernity, but Martin writes in the Introduction, Simply to historicize postmodernism seems inadequate and, in many ways, premature. Utopia's Ghost connects architecture to current debates on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and corporate globalization ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816669639
SKU
V9780816669639
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About Reinhold Martin
Reinhold Martin is associate professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where he directs the PhD program in architecture and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He is a founding coeditor of the journal Grey Room, author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space, and ... Read more
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