The dissolution of place : architecture, identity, and the body / Shelton Waldrep.
The dissolution of place : architecture, identity, and the body / Shelton Waldrep.
The dissolution of place : architecture, identity, and the body / Shelton Waldrep.
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Publisher
Farnham, England : Ashgate, 2012.
Farnham, England Ashgate, [2013]
Date
2012.
Call Numbers
G 2013/2181
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The architectonics of post/modernist space -- The global theme park: Disney in the world -- The architecture of time: postmodern casinos in Las Vegas -- In Her Majesty's secret closet: Bond's body -- Reverse empire: architecture in Native American casinos -- Philip Johnson and the architecture of th...
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Publisher
Farnham, England : Ashgate, 2012.
Farnham, England Ashgate, [2013]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2012.
[2013]
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Summary
Postmodern architecture has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist vs postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already sup...
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The dissolution of place : architecture, identity, and the body / Shelton Waldrep.
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Ashgate studies in architecture series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/2181
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74VKw2mNpVQd
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ISBN
1409417697 (ebook)
9781409417682 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409417689 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409417699 (ebook)
DDC
724/.6
MMS ID
991018208119702626
