Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde

by K. Michael Hays

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