Building Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Bentham’s Panopticon: An Architectural Perpetration
Politics of Style: Dublin Pro-Cathedral and the Greek Revival
An American Utopian Schoolhouse Design
Note on Sullivan and the Rarefaction of Bodily Beauty
DeChirico’s Pathos of Lost Antiquity
Textual Life of the Living-Machine
Reflections in Onyx on Mies van der Rohe
Post Tenebras Lux: Speculations on Ronchamp
Kahn: The Anxious Classicist
Crystalline Form, Worringer, and the Minimalism of Tony Smith
Form Behind Concept: The Bechers’ Imaging of Industrial Architecture
Classical Sass: Notes on Soft Postmodernism
Tired Tropes: Cathedral versus Bicycle Shed, “Duck” versus “Decorated Shed” 

 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

ISBN: 0-521-44013-0 hardback

ISBN: 9780521447850 paperback

Reviewed by Andrew Ballantyne in The Times Literary Supplement (London), 4 March 1994, p. 17, by Andrew Ballantyne; also in Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris), Autumn 1994, by Michel Assenmaker