Mass, identity, architecture : architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard (Record no. 54967)
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| fixed length control field | 04101 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780470027158 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 720.1 |
| Item number | PRO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Proto, Francesco Ed. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mass, identity, architecture : architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | West Sussex |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv,187,iip. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Foreword: Consuming Signs ix <br/>Mike Gane<br/>Introduction: Philosophy as a Commodity: Mode d'Emploi xi <br/>Francesco Proto<br/>The Aesthetics and the Machine 1 <br/>Francesco Proto<br/>Cheese-(beau)burger<br/>Post-orgasmic chill<br/>Pop-nography<br/>The Prozac effect<br/>Disneyland: one-way ticket<br/>The emperor's new clothes<br/>Chapter One : Absolute Architecture 19 <br/>The Singular Objects of Architecture<br/>Radicality<br/>Singular objects in architecture<br/>Illusion. Virtuality. Reality<br/>A destabilized area<br/>Concept. Irresolution. Vertigo<br/>Values of functionalism<br/>New York or Utopia<br/>Architecture: between nostalgia and anticipation<br/>(Always) seduction<br/>Provocation. Secrets<br/>The aesthetics of modernity<br/>A heroic architectural act?<br/>Art, architecture and postmodernity<br/>Visual disappointment<br/>Intellectual disappointment<br/>The aesthetics of disappearance<br/>Chapter Two : Cool Cities 37 <br/>America<br/>Salt Lake City<br/>New York<br/>Santa Barbara<br/>Venice and Porterville<br/>Disneyland<br/>The Bonaventure Hotel<br/>The realized utopia<br/>Cool Memories I (1980--85)<br/>Urbino. Gubbio. Mantua<br/>Trieste<br/>Palermo<br/>Pompeii<br/>Montreal<br/>Tower blocks<br/>Velizy<br/>Velizy 2<br/>Versailles. St Peter<br/>The Pompidou Centre<br/>Urban monsters<br/>Paris<br/>Berlin<br/>Rome in December<br/>Night on the cities<br/>Dunkirk<br/>Ideal City<br/>Fifth Avenue<br/>Suburban comfort<br/>Cool Memories II (1987--90)<br/>American towns<br/>Rio<br/>Buenos Aires<br/>Puerto Stroessner<br/>Sites of fascination<br/>Venice (California)<br/>Los Angeles<br/>Marilyn's grave<br/>Salt Lake City<br/>Las Vegas Disneyworld<br/>Beyond Las Vegas<br/>Venice (California)<br/>New York. Lisbon<br/>Shop windows<br/>Shop windows 2<br/>Arche de la Defense<br/>Coupole<br/>Sao Paulo<br/>Copacabana<br/>Cool Memories III (1992--95)<br/>Venice<br/>Puerto Vallarta<br/>Bern. Zurich<br/>Brasilia<br/>Brasilia's satellites<br/>Free zones' farce<br/>American campuses<br/>Pointe du Raz<br/>Copacabana Montreal. Rio<br/>Pompeii<br/>Luxembourg Gardens<br/>Cool Memories IV (1995--2002)<br/>New York<br/>Tierra del Fuego<br/>New York<br/>Naples<br/>Pompeii<br/>Disney Company<br/>Future Cities<br/>St Petersburg<br/>Bogota<br/>Buenos Aires<br/>Palacio Itamarati<br/>California<br/>Villa Palagonia (Palermo)<br/>Villa Palagonia II<br/>Chapter Three : The Indifference of Space 71 <br/>Le Parc de la Villette<br/>Urbanism and architecture<br/>Chapter Four : The Code and the Eye 81 <br/>Simulations<br/>Hyperreal and imaginary [Disneyland]<br/>The stucco angel [Baroque Architecture]<br/>The tactile and the digital [World Trade Center]<br/>Trompe l'Oeil or enchanted simulation [Duke of Urbino's and Federico da Montefeltro's studiolos]<br/>Ecstasy and inertia [Pompeii]<br/>Chapter Five : The Rise of the Object: the End of Culture 95 <br/>The Formal Liturgy of the Object<br/>The consumer society<br/>Profusion and display<br/>The drugstore<br/>Parly 2<br/>Hypermarket and Hypercommodity<br/>Absolute Advertising, Ground Zero Advertising<br/>Mass (Sociology of)<br/>Mass languages<br/>A structure of modernity<br/>An operational language<br/>Beyond truth and falsehood<br/>The internal logic of this neo-language<br/>Chapter Six : The ideology of Technique 123 <br/>Technique as social practice<br/>The organization, as myth, of technique<br/>Conclusion: `technique totally in the service of everyday life?'<br/>Ephemeral and Durable<br/>The Irony of Technology<br/>The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion or Deterrence?<br/>Chapter Seven : The Aesthetic Suicide 151 <br/>Questions of Strategy<br/>Truth or Radicality: The Future of Architecture<br/>The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture: an interview with Jean Baudrillard 175 <br/>Aesthetics and design<br/>The lost language of seduction<br/><br/>Success in architecture<br/>Duchamp in architecture<br/>The object as a sign<br/>Space as a thought<br/>Baudrillard, Perspective and the Void of Architecture 181 <br/>Keith Broadfoot<br/>Rex Butler<br/>Essential Bibliography 189 <br/>Further Reading 191<br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 63654 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FA |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 13/11/2018 | Astha Book Agency | 3401.00 | 3 | 2 | 720.1 PRO | 020216 | 15/07/2022 | 06/06/2022 | 4251.50 | 13/11/2018 | Book |