Architecture and Ugliness HARDBACK 9781350068230

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Architecture and Ugliness\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nTitle: Architecture and Ugliness\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of architecture\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nISBN-13: 9781350068230\nISBN-10: 1350068233\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhatever ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.\nThis book presents sixteen new scholarly essays which rethink ugliness in recent architecture from Brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern ar.