Laughing at Architecture: Architectural Histories of Humour, Satire and Wit

Michela Rosso is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Politechnico di Torino, Italy. In 2014 she was elected General Chair of the Advisory Board of the European Architectural History Network, and in 2016 she was awarded a residential fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art.

List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction, Michela Rosso 1. Laughing at the Baroque: A Drawing and Some Texts Compared, Susanna Pasquali 2. From Reportage to Ridicule: Satirizing the Building Industry in the Eighteenth-century Irish Press, Conor Lucey 3. The Thorn of Scorn: John Nash and his All Souls Church for a Transformed Regency London, Daniela Roberts 4. 'A Joke that has Gone on Far too Long': Mocking the Completion of the New Hotel des Postes de Paris (1886-1888), Guy Lambert 5. Deconstructing Gaudi: Intertwined Relationships between Satire and Architectural Criticism, Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes 6. Confronting Problems with a Sense of Humour: Adolf Loos's Architectural Polemics and Viennese Journalism, Ruth Hanisch 7. Words and Images of Contempt: Il Selvaggio on Architecture (1926-1942), Michela Rosso 8. Osbert Lancaster: Architectural Humour in the Time of Functionalism, Alan Powers 9. Irrational Interiors: The Modern Domestic Landscape Seen in Caricatures, Gabriele Neri 10. From 'Little Russia' (Klein Rusland) to 'Planet of the Apes' (De Apenplaneet): Nicknaming Twentieth-century Mass Housing in Belgium, Evert Vandeweghe 11. Saul Steinberg's Graph Paper Architecture: Humorous Drawings and Diagrams as Instruments of Critique, Christoph Lueder 12. The Modern City Through the Mirror of Humour: A Different Portrait, Olivier Ratouis 13. Splendid?! Preposterous! Chinese Artists Mock the Architectural Spectacle, Angela Becher Index