Architecture History and Theory in Reverse : From an Information Age to Eras of Meaning.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Epilogue: Today, in the Beginning … -- Part I Architecture in an Information Age -- 1 Twenty-First-Century Trajectories -- 2 Modernity's Legacy in a New Millennium -- 3 A Postmodern Profession, Circa 1991 -- 4 Formal or Phenomenological: A Feud over Information -- 5 Deconstruction, Irony, the Pompidou, and the São Pedro -- 6 Mies van der Rohe in Chicago -- 7 Language Games -- 8 Loos and the Ascension of Space in the Marketplace -- Interlude: The Information Reformation, or This Killed That -- Part II Architecture in Eras of Meaning -- 9 16 June 1904: Ulysses and The Uncanny -- 10 Marx, Meaning, and Matter -- 11 Exchange and Evolution -- 12 In What Style? Epistemes and Monsters -- 13 The Précis and the Paternity of Perception -- 14 De Sade versus Descartes: Competing Conceptions of Language -- 15 The Tense of Abstract Nouns -- 16 Vitruvian Cycles 1: Representations Against Space -- 17 Vitruvian Cycles 2: Physical Language and Shared Experience -- Prologue: Babel… -- Further Reading -- Image Credits -- Index.

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, so you can follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas can disrupt civilization's flow.

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