Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit Tapa dura - 2018

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. 9781350022782. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial laminated boards (Fine), no dustwrapper issued. Pp. xvi + 272, illus with b&w photos and drawings in text (no inscriptions).

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London,, 2019. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket As Issued.. About fine.. 8vo. pp xvi, 272. Original publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, lettered black and red at spine and front. Black and white illustrations throughout.ISBN: 9781350022782

Hardback. New. In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From… Leer más

Ava Pub Sa, 2018. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches.