{"product_id":"architecture-and-ugliness-9781350068230","title":"Architecture and Ugliness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhatever ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics  alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.   This book presents sixteen new scholarly essays which rethink ugliness in recent architecture  from Brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions  and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern architecture and design. The essays address both broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics, as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century. The book attends to the diverse relations between the aesthetic register of ugliness and closely connected aesthetic concepts such as the monstrous, the ordinary, disgust, the excessive, the grotesque, the interesting, the impure and the sublime.   This volume does not simply document the history of a postmodern anti-aesthet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully rich and stimulating collection of essays, which plumbs the fraught nooks and crannies of the ugly’s discursive terrain. Taken together, the detailed case studies build a satisfyingly variegated account of the complex play of fascination and repulsion that attends aberrant form and architecture’s negotiations with it since the mid-twentieth century. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK *\u003cbr\u003eMak[es] clearer the development of and deployment of ugliness in architecture and elucidates just how murky and rich the concept can be ... A worthwhile and very rewarding read. * Fabrications *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eRetracing the Ugly and the Anti-aesthetic as a Productive Force in Postmodern Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e   1. \u003cb\u003eUgliness, the anti-aesthetic and appropriation: with some remarks on the architecture of ARM \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Macarthur, (University of Queensland, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e   2. \u003cb\u003eOn Ugliness (in Architecture)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eBart Verschaffel, (Ghent University, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART 1: UGLY AND MONSTROUS\u003c\/b\u003e   3. \u003cb\u003eInstrumentalizing Ugliness: Parallels between High Victorian and Brutalist Architecture \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy M. Rohan, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   4. \u003cb\u003eMonstrous Becomings: A Minor Cartography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeidi Sohn, (TU Delft, the Netherlands)\u003c\/i\u003e   5. \u003cb\u003eFaux Monumentality in Ricardo Bofill’s Les espaces d'Abraxas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Mical,\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eAuckland University of Technology, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e   6. \u003cb\u003ePost-communism and the Monstrous: Skopje 2014 and Other Political Tales\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMirjana Lozanovska, (Deakin University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e   7. \u003cb\u003eHere be Monsters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Leach, (The University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e   8. \u003cb\u003eTo Make Monsters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaroline O’Donnell, (Cornell University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePART 2: UGLY AND ORDINARY\u003c\/b\u003e   9. \u003cb\u003e‘Ugly’: The Architecture of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Fausch\u003c\/i\u003e   10. \u003cb\u003eCamp Ugliness: The Case of Charles W. Moore\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatricia A. Morton, (University of California, Riverside, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   11. \u003cb\u003eArchitecture in El Alto: the Politics of Excess \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eElisabetta Andreoli\u003c\/i\u003e   12. \u003cb\u003eThe Critical Kitsch of Alchimia and Memphis: Design by Media\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnnMarie Brennan, (University of Melbourne, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e   13. \u003cb\u003eThe Immediacy of Urban Reality in Postwar Italy: Between Neorealism’s and Tendenza’s Instrumentalization of Ugliness\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianna Charitonidou, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)\u003c\/i\u003e   14. \u003cb\u003eUgliness as Aesthetic Friction: Renewing Architecture Against the Grain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLara Schrijver, (University of Antwerp, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e   15. \u003cb\u003eUgliness, or the Cathectic Moment of Modulation between Terror and the Comic in Postmodern Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWouter Van Acker, (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019625234775,"sku":"9781350068230","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350068230.jpg?v=1750780821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/architecture-and-ugliness-9781350068230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}