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Institute of Technology
Architecture's desire : reading the late avant-garde /
The author "writes an account of the 'late avant-garde' as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own historical status, and deliberately exploring architure's representational possibilities right up to their absolute limits... an architecture confr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Writing architecture.
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| Summary: | The author "writes an account of the 'late avant-garde' as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own historical status, and deliberately exploring architure's representational possibilities right up to their absolute limits... an architecture confronting its own boundaries with objects of ever more reflexivity, difficulty, and intransigence." -- from back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780262513029 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0262513021 (pbk. : alk. paper) |