Architectures Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde Hays K. Michael
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…
Specifikacia Architectures Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde Hays K. Michael
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 systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own historical status, and deliberately exploring architecture's representational possibilities right up to their absolute limits. In close readings of the brooding, melancholy silence of Aldo Rossi, the radically reductive "decompositions" and archaeologies of Peter Eisenman, the carnivalesque excesses of John Hejduk, and the "cinegrammatic" delirium of Bernard Tschumi, Hays narrates