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02366aam a2200313 i 4500 001 50D9C3188E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 191023s2020 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019049168 020 $a 1350068233 020 $a 9781350068230 035 $a (OCoLC)1125277168 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a NA682 P67 A69 2020 245 00 $a Architecture and ugliness : $b anti-aesthetics and the ugly in postmodern architecture / $c edited by Wouter Van Acker and Thomas Mical. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Visual Arts, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 285 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture - from brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions - and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern architecture and design. The essays address both broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics, as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century, addressing the relation between the aesthetic register of ugliness and aesthetic concepts such as brutalism, kitsch, the formless, ad hoc-ism, the monstrous, or the grotesque. The aim of this volume is not simply to document the history of a postmodern anti-aesthetic through case studies. Instead, it aims to shed light on an aesthetic problem that has been largely overlooked in the agenda of architectural theory, the question if and how ugliness can be of interest to architecture; or if and how architecture can make good use of ugliness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Architecture, Postmodern. 650 0 $a Architecture $x Aesthetics. 700 1 $a Acker, Wouter Van, $e editor. 700 1 $a Mical, Thomas, $d 1965- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403011627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50D9C3188E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search