Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

by Reinhold Martin

Book Overview

Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia's Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insights into cultural postmodernism and its aftermath. Much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816669635
• ISBN13: 9780816669639
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"