E. Petit, Irony, or, the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture. [Review]

0441951 - ÚDU 2015 RIV CZ eng R - Book Review
Švácha, Rostislav
E. Petit, Irony, or, the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture. [Review].
[PETIT, E.: Irony, or, the Self-critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture. New Haven and London, 2013. 262 s]. Umění. Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i. Roč. 62, č. 5 (2014), s. 484-487. ISSN 0049-5123
Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : architecture * post-modernism * irony
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Petit´s book is one of the first ones which are researching the post-modern architecture as a movement of architectural history. He sees as a crucial idea of post-modernism an irony, a phenomenon that is very rare in the older history of architecture.
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