{"product_id":"achtung-architektur-book-eeva-liisa-pelkonen-9780262161596","title":"Achtung Architektur!","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeware Architecture  Architecture that entails surprise, even danger, is the subject of this exciting discourse on a body of work that has gained increasing international attention since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Graz and Vienna came to represent the radical edge of European architecture. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen looks at how this architecture tests the limits of the modern tradition, bringing to light work that is little known yet extremely consequential for contemporary theoretical discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForged in a rarified architectural climate dominated by postwar Marxist-Freudian trends, the Austrian avant-garde challenges the traditional paradigms of objecthood, compositional form, programmic functionality, and spatial closure, emphasizing the fictional and the fantastic embodied in the more peripheral notions within the modern tradition: glass, ornament, machine mysticism, and the organic gestural line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePelkonen moves between a solid analysis of individual works of architects and firms such as Volker Giencke, G nter Domenig, Klaus Kada, Helmut Richter, COP Himmelblau, and Haus-Rucker-Co, and others, and their historical and cultural contexts: philosophical debates on Heidegger, Bloch, Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and Giorgio Agamben; and the postwar debate on the avant-garde through the works of Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, and the Wiener Aktionisten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551221555473,"sku":"GOR013624943","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262161591.jpg?v=1751324146","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/achtung-architektur-book-eeva-liisa-pelkonen-9780262161596","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}