Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique

by Gevork Hartoonian

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "neo-avant-garde" architecture. It discusses the spectacle and excess which permeates contemporary architecture in reference to the present aesthetic tendency for image making, but does so by applying the tectonic of theatricality discussed by the 19th-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274062
• ISBN13: 9781138274068
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.7"