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_aProto, Francesco Ed. _963680 |
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| 245 | _aMass, identity, architecture : architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard | ||
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_aWest Sussex _bJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd. _c2006 |
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| 505 | _aCONTENTS Foreword: Consuming Signs ix Mike Gane Introduction: Philosophy as a Commodity: Mode d'Emploi xi Francesco Proto The Aesthetics and the Machine 1 Francesco Proto Cheese-(beau)burger Post-orgasmic chill Pop-nography The Prozac effect Disneyland: one-way ticket The emperor's new clothes Chapter One : Absolute Architecture 19 The Singular Objects of Architecture Radicality Singular objects in architecture Illusion. Virtuality. Reality A destabilized area Concept. Irresolution. Vertigo Values of functionalism New York or Utopia Architecture: between nostalgia and anticipation (Always) seduction Provocation. Secrets The aesthetics of modernity A heroic architectural act? Art, architecture and postmodernity Visual disappointment Intellectual disappointment The aesthetics of disappearance Chapter Two : Cool Cities 37 America Salt Lake City New York Santa Barbara Venice and Porterville Disneyland The Bonaventure Hotel The realized utopia Cool Memories I (1980--85) Urbino. Gubbio. Mantua Trieste Palermo Pompeii Montreal Tower blocks Velizy Velizy 2 Versailles. St Peter The Pompidou Centre Urban monsters Paris Berlin Rome in December Night on the cities Dunkirk Ideal City Fifth Avenue Suburban comfort Cool Memories II (1987--90) American towns Rio Buenos Aires Puerto Stroessner Sites of fascination Venice (California) Los Angeles Marilyn's grave Salt Lake City Las Vegas Disneyworld Beyond Las Vegas Venice (California) New York. Lisbon Shop windows Shop windows 2 Arche de la Defense Coupole Sao Paulo Copacabana Cool Memories III (1992--95) Venice Puerto Vallarta Bern. Zurich Brasilia Brasilia's satellites Free zones' farce American campuses Pointe du Raz Copacabana Montreal. Rio Pompeii Luxembourg Gardens Cool Memories IV (1995--2002) New York Tierra del Fuego New York Naples Pompeii Disney Company Future Cities St Petersburg Bogota Buenos Aires Palacio Itamarati California Villa Palagonia (Palermo) Villa Palagonia II Chapter Three : The Indifference of Space 71 Le Parc de la Villette Urbanism and architecture Chapter Four : The Code and the Eye 81 Simulations Hyperreal and imaginary [Disneyland] The stucco angel [Baroque Architecture] The tactile and the digital [World Trade Center] Trompe l'Oeil or enchanted simulation [Duke of Urbino's and Federico da Montefeltro's studiolos] Ecstasy and inertia [Pompeii] Chapter Five : The Rise of the Object: the End of Culture 95 The Formal Liturgy of the Object The consumer society Profusion and display The drugstore Parly 2 Hypermarket and Hypercommodity Absolute Advertising, Ground Zero Advertising Mass (Sociology of) Mass languages A structure of modernity An operational language Beyond truth and falsehood The internal logic of this neo-language Chapter Six : The ideology of Technique 123 Technique as social practice The organization, as myth, of technique Conclusion: `technique totally in the service of everyday life?' Ephemeral and Durable The Irony of Technology The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion or Deterrence? Chapter Seven : The Aesthetic Suicide 151 Questions of Strategy Truth or Radicality: The Future of Architecture The Homeopathic Disappearance of Architecture: an interview with Jean Baudrillard 175 Aesthetics and design The lost language of seduction Success in architecture Duchamp in architecture The object as a sign Space as a thought Baudrillard, Perspective and the Void of Architecture 181 Keith Broadfoot Rex Butler Essential Bibliography 189 Further Reading 191 | ||
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