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Architecture Post Mortem

The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and


Death

Edited by

Donald Kunze
Penn State University, USA

David Bertolin
Louisiana State University, USA

Simone Brott
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

ASHGATE
Contents

List ofFigures ix

Authors' Biographies xiii

lntroduction:The Way Things Are 1

Donald Kunze

1 Driven into the Public: The Psychic Constitution of Space 15

Todd McGowan

2 Dead or Alive in Joburg 31

Simone Brott

3 Building In-Between theTwo Deaths: A Post Mortem Manifesto 51

Nadir Lahiji

4 Kant, Sade, Ethics and Architecture 63

David Bertolini

5 Post Mortem: Building Destruction 81

Kazi K. Ashraf

6 The Slow-Fast Architecture of Love in the Ruins 99

Donald Kunze

7 Progress: Re-Building the Ruins of Architecture 121

Gevork Hartoonian

8 Adrian Stokes: Surface Suicide 139

Peggy Deamer

9 A Window to the Soul: Depth in Early Modern Section Drawing 153

Paul Emmons
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10 Preliminary Thoughts on Piranesi and Vico 179


Erika Naginski

11 Architectural Asceticism and Austerity 205


Didem Ekici

12 900 Miles to Paradise, and Other Afterlives of Architecture 219


Dennis Matter

Index 241

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