• critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.5 x 22.5 cm.
  • 144 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1854901869

Heteropolis : Los Angeles. The Riots and the Strange Beauty of the Hetero-Architecture

Charles Jencks

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Anthology of critical essays on the architecture of Los Angeles and its influence on the socio-political mood of the city. "In an age dominated by nationalism and ethnic conflict, Charles Jencks argues that these reactionary tendencies can be countered by an equally powerful drive - heterophilia : the love of difference, the desire to seek out new experience and curiosity. All of these are essential to the creation of a new form of city, the heteropolis, epitomized by Los Angeles. [...] The hetero-architecture of Los Angeles suggests a way beyond the present impasse between the fundamentalists and the multiculturalists, a third position which diffuses confrontation with creative displacement and inclusive eclecticism. The strange beauty of hetero-architecture embraces variety, its informality allows marginalized groups to feel at home and its unusual metaphors suggest our connection to the natural world." -- from interior flap. Includes footnotes, appendix, and index. Printed in color and black-and-white.

London, United Kingdom: Academy Editions,
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