The Space of Appearance

by George Baird

Book Overview

What is architecture's place in the world? Combining history, theory, and polemic, George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure of these theories to develop an architecture that is politically engaged and affirmative of the public sphere. Hannah Arendt's imperative of worldliness plays a pivotal role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262523434
• ISBN13: 9780262523431
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher