TY - GEN AU - Baudrillard, Jean AU - Nouvel, Jean TI - Singular objects of architecture SN - 9780816639137 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Foreword K. Michael Hays Acknowledgments I. First Interview Radicality—Singular Objects in Architecture-Illusion, Virtuality, Reality-A Destabilized Area?—Concept, Irresolution, Vertigo-Creation and Forgetfulness—Values of Functionalism-New York or Utopia-Architecture: Between Nostalgia and Anticipation—(Always) Seduction, Provocation, Secrets—The Metamorphosis of Architecture-Trie Aesthetics of Modernity-Culture-A Heroic Architectural Act?—Art, Architecture, and Postmodernity-Visual Disappointment, Intellectual Disappointment—The Aesthetics of Disappearance-Images of Modernity—The Biology of the Visible-A New Hedonism? //. Second Interview Truth in Architecture—Another Tower for Beaubourg-A Shelter for Culture?—On Modification: Mutation or Rehabilitation-Architectural Reason-The City of Tomorrow-Virtual Architecture, Real Architecture-Computer Modeling and Architecture-Lightness and Heaviness-What Utopia?—Architecture as the Desire for Omnipotence-Berlin and Europe-Architecture as the Art of Constraint-Transparency-Light as Matter-Disappearance-What Does Architecture Bear Witness To?-Singularity-Neutrality, Universality, and Globalization-Destiny and Becoming-The Idea of Architecture and History—Another Kind of Wisdom-The Question of Style-Inadmissible Complicity-Freedom as Self-Realization ER -