Résumé

Sommaire : Postmodernism : style and subversion / Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt -- Arch-art : architecture as subject matter / James Wines -- Our postmodernism / Denise Scott Brown -- On bricolage / Victor Buchli -- Kitsch and postmodern architecture : Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia / Patricia A. Morton -- Irony and postmodern architecture / Emmanuel Petit -- Civitas Interruptus / Thomas Weaver -- The presence of the past : postmodernism meets in Venice / Léa-Catherine Szacka -- The architect as ghost-writer : Rem Koolhaas and image-based urbanism / Martino Stierli -- Paper architecture : the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin / David Crowley -- Photography into building : the Smithsons and James Stirlin / Claire Zimmerman -- Postmodern angel : Shiro Kuramata / Paola Antonelli -- We are all in the gutter : retailing postmodern fashion / Claire Wilcox -- Making Memphis : 'glue culture' and postmodern production strategies / Catharine Rossi -- The uses of 'notes on camp' / Christopher Breward -- Tomorrow's been cancelled due to lack of interest : Derek Jarman's The Last of England / Oliver Winchester -- Unsettled images : from TV screen to video-wall and back again / Mari Dumett -- Sampling and the materiality of sound / Ulrich Lehmann -- Buffalo : style with intent / Carol Tulloch -- Dressing viciously : hip-hop music, fashion and cultural crossover / Zoe Whitley -- What is 'post' about global hip-hop? / Sujatha Fernandes -- Klaus Nomi : astral countervoice of the new wave / Susanne K. Frantz -- Threads and rays : accessorizing Michael Clark / Matthew Hawkins -- Embraced by the (spot)light : Ōno Kazuo, Butō and Admiring La Argentina / Bruce Baird -- Fashion, violence and hyperreality / Rebecca Arnold -- Big magazines : design as the message / Rick Poynor -- Between words and images : simulation, deconstruction and postmodern photography / Paul Jobling -- David McDiarmid, Peter Tully and the ecstatic space of the paradise garage / Sally Gray -- Michael Graves and the figurative impulse / Christopher Wilk -- Riding the wave of Reaganomics : Swid Powell and the celebrity architects / Elizabeth A. Fleming -- Margaret Thatcher, postmodernism and the politics of design in Britain / Jonathan M. Woodham -- A way of looking at things / April Greiman -- Always already postmodern? Japanese design and architecture in the 1980s / Sarah Teasley -- Coming up for air : 1980s Spanish style cultures / Viviana Narotzky -- Furniture out of its mind : Düsseldorf, 1986 -- True stories : a film about people like us / Rick Poynor -- Abstract figural systems / Reinhold Martin -- No Duchamps in Delhi / Arindam Dutta -- Post-modernism comes of age / Charles Jenks -- The end of style? / Paul Greenhalgh -- Post-script / David Byrne.