Contents

 

1. Late-Modern Theory 

1.1 Introduction - end of an Era?

1.2 Late-Modernism and Post-Modernism

1.3 The Rhetoric of Late-Modernism - A Pictorial essay

 

2. Late-Modern practice

2.1 James Stirling's Corporate Culture Machine

2.2 Stirling's St. Andrews Dormitories

2.3 The Supersensualists I & II

2.4 The Pluralism of Japanese Architecture

2.5 Irrational Rationalism - The Rats since 1960

 

3. Serious Jokes

3.1 Philip Johnson - the Candid King Midas of New York Camp

3.2 Bruce Goff - The Michelangelo of Kitsch

 

4. History and theory

4.1 The Tory Interpretation of History

4.2 Architecture and Morality

 

Notes

Bibliography

Photographic Acknoledgements

Index