03051nam a2200361Ia 4500 231593 231593 pucpr 20200305165006.0 130507s2012 vtu b 001 0 eng 2012026362 9781409417682 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781409417699 (ebook) pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr ger CARIBET NA687 W35 2012 724/.6 23 Waldrep, Shelton. 289043 The dissolution of place architecture, identity, and the body by Shelton Waldrep. txt Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate 2012 228 p. 25cm. book rdacontent txt text rdamedia n unmediaded rdacarrier nc volume Ashgate studies in architecture Include index. Include bibliography The architectonics of post/modernist space -- The global theme park: Disney in the world -- The architecture of time: postmodern casinos in Las Vegas -- In Her Majesty's secret closet: Bond's body -- Reverse empire: architecture in Native American casinos -- Philip Johnson and the architecture of the body -- Bodies in space: architecture and the films of Stanley Kubrick -- Coda: virtual communities. Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general. 54088 Architecture, Modern 21st century Local Architecture Psychological aspects. 54081 Local Place (Philosophy) in architecture. 264601 Local 6 NA687 lcc General W35 2012 0 0 lcc 0 0 beal 4 4 33 2013-05-04 amazon 119.95 505300 0 General NA687 W35 2012 91000000031294 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 129.95 2013-05-04 6