Anti-architecture and deconstruction
"The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise. Modernists, notably the Bauhäusler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before. Yet, at times, they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious historical ancestry to their aims and creations. These questionable links and precedents are now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their supporters
209 pages ; 24 cm
9783937954011, 3937954015
57139148
Foreward / James Stevens Curl
"Some thoughts on culpability" / James Kalb
Introd. / Michael Blowhard
The danger of deconstructionism
Charles Jenck & the new paradigm in architecture
Deconstructing the Devons / with Michael Mehaffy
Death, life, and Liebeskind / with Brian Hanson
Warped space
Anti-architecture and religion
Twentieth-century architecture as a cult
The Derrida virus
Background material for "The Derrida virus"
The new Acropolis Museum
Architectural theory & the work of Bernard Tschumi
Christopher Alexander & the new architecture (incl. an interview with Christopher Alexander)
Endnote / Lucien Steil
Chapter annotations by Michael Blowhard (pseud.)
Collection of essays previously published in print and Internet journals