Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)
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Kolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition

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BH301.P69.K64 1990

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9780226450285   0226450287   0226450279
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Chapters

Building together / buildings together.David Kolb
Extending architectural vocabulary.David Kolb
Form and content in utopia.David Kolb
Haughty and humble ironies.David Kolb
Life in a balloon.David Kolb
Making places for ourselves.David Kolb
Modern versus postmodern architecture.David Kolb
Postmodern sophistication: Habermas versus Lyotard.David Kolb
Self-identity and place.David Kolb
Socrates and the Story of Inquiry.David Kolb
Self-criticism in a broken mirror.David Kolb
The Last Word in Greek Philosophy.David Kolb
The power of the Sophist.David Kolb
Where do the architects live?David Kolb

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Philosophical Investigations.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1953 - New York, NY, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe.
Ontological relativity and other essays.Willard Van Orman Quine (ed.) - 1969 - New York: Columbia University Press.
After virtue: a study in moral theory.Alasdair C. MacIntyre - 1981 - Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.

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