The Dissolution of Place : Architecture, Identity, and the Body.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series .
- Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface: Letter from Portland, Maine -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Architectonics of Post/modernist Space -- 2 The Global Theme Park: Disney in the World -- 3 The Architecture of Time: Postmodern Casinos in Las Vegas -- 4 In Her Majesty's Secret Closet: Bond's Body -- 5 Reverse Empire: Architecture in Native American Casinos -- 6 Philip Johnson and the Architecture of the Body -- 7 Bodies in Space: Architecture and the Films of Stanley Kubrick -- Coda: Virtual Communities -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general.