| Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction Contributor(s): Salingaros, Nikos A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3937954090 ISBN-13: 9783937954097 Publisher: Isi Distributed Titles OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 720.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (0.95 lbs) 175 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise. Modernists, notably the Bauh usler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before. Yet, at times, they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious historical ancestry to their aims and creations. These questionable links and precedents are now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their supporters. The second edition of this book is the beginning of a long-overdue counterattack. |