Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture

by Wouter van Acker and Thomas Mical

Book Overview

Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.

This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350236705
• ISBN13: 9781350236707
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"