Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era

Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern EraThe history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until the beginning of the 1970s, when a major contesting movement appeared on the scene, labelled as Post Modernism. Taking a similar approach, this book explores the different

Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse

between-group comparison of self-structure

Chapters on language

two systems" not just in political but in spatial and affective terms

and South Africa (PHASA)

Dalal does not have the heart to tell Hanem that her grown children Nargis and Abdel Reheem have both been dead for some time

whose biography and bibliography are included

it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored

we shall discover that behind the appearance of disorder lies beauty

testifying to the transformative power of love while proving beyond any doubt the power of a transformative poetry

Essays explore the contemporary contexts

gender debates