{"product_id":"celebrating-the-marvellous-9781119254416","title":"Celebrating the Marvellous","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are entering a new era of architecture that is technologically enhanced, virtual and synthetic. Contemporary architects operate in a creative environment that is both real and digital; mixed, augmented and hybridised. This world consists of ecstasies, fears, fetishisms and phantoms, processes and spatiality that can best be described as Surrealist. Though too long dormant, Surrealism has been a significant cultural force in modern architecture. Founded by poet André Breton in Paris in 1924 as an artistic, intellectual and literary movement, architects such as Le Corbusier, Diller + Scofidio, Bernard Tschumi and John Hejduk realised its evocative powers to propel them to ''starchitect'' status. Rem Koolhaas most famously illustrated \u003ci\u003eDelirious New York\u003c\/i\u003e (1978) with Madelon Vriesendorp''s compelling Surrealist images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitects are now reviving the power of Surrealism to inspire and explore the ramifications of advanced technology. Architects'' studios in practices and\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407020138839,"sku":"9781119254416","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/celebrating-the-marvellous-9781119254416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}