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Dekonstruktion? Dekonstruktivismus? Aufbruch ins Chaos oder neues Bild der Welt?
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ISBN: 3528087900 Year: 1990 Publisher: Braunschweig Vieweg

Critical architecture and contemporary culture
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ISBN: 0195078195 9780195078190 0195360168 9780195360165 9780195360165 1280526416 9781280526411 9786610526413 6610526419 1429405597 0197723616 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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This volume, evolving from a recent symposium, brings together a group of prominent literary theorists and architects to discuss the entente between postmodernism and architecture.


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Pop architecture : a sophisticated interpretation of popular culture?
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ISBN: 1854901338 9781854901330 0312081081 9780312081089 Year: 1992 Publisher: London Academy group

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This book is based on the proceedings of the forum of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where the participants discussed Popular Architecture and the various notions surrounding it, especially the ideas of "the popular" and "pop art". Speakers included Charles Jencks, Robert Maxwell, Terry Farrell, James Wines, Piers Gough, Geoffrey Broadbent and many other internationally renowned architects and critics. Examples of this kind of architecture are presented, including recent projects by Robert Stern, particularly his work at Euro Disney, the Chiat/Day/Mojo building by Claes Oldenburg and Frank Gehry, and the work of Basil Bayati and Tomas Taveira. There is also an exclusive interview of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown by Robert Maxwell.

Architecture in transition : between deconstruction and new modernism
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ISBN: 3791311360 9783791311364 3791311166 9783791311166 Year: 1991 Publisher: Munich Prestel

The architecture of deconstruction : Derrida's haunt.
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ISBN: 0262231700 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press

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In this book Wigley redefines the question of deconstruction and architecture. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, he opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction, offering a way of rethinking the institution of architecture while using architecture to rethink deconstructive discourse. Wigley relentlessly tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts. He argues that this seemingly tenuous thread actually binds those texts, acting as their source of strength but also their point of greatest weakness. Derrida's work is seen to render architecture at once more complex, uncanny, pervasive, unstable, brutal, enigmatic, and devious, if not insidious, while needing itself to be subjected to an architectural interrogation. Wigley provocatively turns Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, vomit, spacing, laughter, and dance. Along the way he highlights new aspects of the relationship between Heidegger and Derrida, explores the structural role of ornament and the elusive architecture of haunting, while presenting a fascinating account of the institutional politics of architecture.

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