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020 $a0262621266 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aNA2500$b.L43 1999
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100 1 $aLeach, Neil.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95020673
245 14 $aThe anaesthetics of architecture /$cNeil Leach.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $aviii, 101 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [89]-98) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSaturation of the Image --$g2.$tThe Architect as Fascist --$g3.$tThe Aesthetics of Intoxication --$g4.$tThe Architecture of the Catwalk --$g5.$tSeduction, the Last Resort.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101285
650 4 $aArchitecture$xAesthetics.
650 4 $aArchitecture, Modern$y20th century.
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