Format:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317035473
Series Statement:
Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
Content:
This book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface: Letter from Portland, Maine -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Architectonics of Post/modernist Space -- 2 The Global Theme Park: Disney in the World -- 3 The Architecture of Time: Postmodern Casinos in Las Vegas -- 4 In Her Majesty's Secret Closet: Bond's Body -- 5 Reverse Empire: Architecture in Native American Casinos -- 6 Philip Johnson and the Architecture of the Body -- 7 Bodies in Space: Architecture and the Films of Stanley Kubrick -- Coda: Virtual Communities -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Waldrep, Shelton The Dissolution of Place Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9781409417682
Language:
English
Keywords:
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