Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde

(Part of the Writing Architecture Series)

by K. Michael Hays

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Theorizes an architectural ethos of extreme self-reflection and finality from a Lacanian perspective.

While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in Architecture's Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the "late avant-garde" as an architecture...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262513021

ISBN13:9780262513029

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Architecture

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