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Monster

Author: Marc Guberman; Jacob Reidel; Frida Rosenberg
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: Perspecta, 40.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A monster is in our midst, and its name is Architecture.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Guberman; Jacob Reidel; Frida Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780262572446 0262572443
OCLC Number: 181142536
Description: 208 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.
Contents: Monumental monstrosity, monstrous monumentality / Terry Kirk --
Monstrous objects, morphing things : on Alberti, wiki, and bloggers / Mario Carpo --
Soft monsters / Jürg Lehni --
Coming of age : a soft monstrosity / Marcelyn Gow and Ulrika Karlsson --
Typo-morphology of Tokyo / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Ryuji Fujimura --
Preliminary notes on the emergence of statistical-mechanical geographic vision / John May --
Computing alibis : third world teratologies / Arindam Dutta --
Hors echelle : remembering James Stirling --
The disappearance of Charles Perrault : a cautionary tale / Edward Eigen --
Un-messy realism and the decline of the architectural mind / Mark Jarzombek --
Anatomical diagram of Fire Monster Gemera --
Etiologies of beauty : architecture and the new physics of appearance / mark Foster Gage --
Sliding a round peg through a round hole : Museum Plaza / Joshua Prince-Ramus --
You are playing a fool's game : a public exchange between Mark Foster Gage and Joshua Prince-Ramus on Museum Plaza and beauty --
Kevin Roche interview --
The New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum --
The New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum : urban subtext / Eeva Liisa Pelkonen --
The New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum / Photographed by Colin Montgomery in 2006 --
The monster magnified : architectural photography as visual hyperbole / Claire Zimmerman --
Anatomical diagrams of Money-eating Monster Kanegon and Four-dimensional Monster Bullton --
Incubation and decay : Arata Isozaki's architectural poetics, metabolism's dialogical other / Emmanuel Petit --
Ru(m)inations : the haunts of contemporary architecture / John McMorrough --
Monsters, mutations, and morphology / Michael Weinstock --
Beautiful monsters / Greg Lynn --
Scaling practice : the increasing footprint of architecture in the digital age / Phillip Bernstein --
Gensler interview --
Christopher Sharples interview --
Guy Nordenson interview --
Nothing will come of nothing / Catherine Ingraham.
Series Title: Perspecta, 40.
Responsibility: edited by Marc Guberman, Jacob Reidel, and Frida Rosenberg.

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