The anaesthetics of architecture
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Word Count
25,250 words, Guess
Page Count
101 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL375705M
- ISBN-100262621266
- OCLC Control Number44964501
- OCLC Control Number39887004
- OCLC Control Numberanaestheticsofar0000leac
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98037597
- LibraryThing151665
- Goodreads750151
Classifications
- DDC720/.1
- LCCNA2500 .L43 1999
Description
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the consequences of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in contemporary architectural culture. The problem with this preoccupation, Leach argues, is that it can induce a sort of numbness as the saturation of images floods the senses and obscures deeper concerns. In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this "culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies of seduction, and architectural design is reduced to the superficial play of empty, seductive forms.
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