Mediated Messages: Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture

Veronique Patteeuw is Associate Professor at ENSAP Lille. Lea-Catherine Szacka is Lecturer in Architectural Studies at The Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester.

Foreword - Barry Bergdoll Introduction - Lea-Catherine Szacka and Veronique Patteeuw Part I. Architecture as Images Versus Image as Architecture: Postmodern Architecture's Pursuit of a New Spatial and Visual Culture 1. Bau Magazine and the Architecture of Media (1965-1970) - Eva Branscome 2. Serial Postmodernity: Architectural Association Publications in the 1980s - Igor Marjanovic 3. 'I Decline to be a Missionary': Late Modern Mirrors and Transformations in Modern Architecture (1980) - Michael Kubo Part II. Inter_National Postmodernisms: Micro-Narratives and Their Contribution to Postmodern Architecture 4. Reima Pietila (Postmodern) Morphologies - Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen 5. Issues of Realism: Archithese, Postmodernism and Swiss Architecture (1971-1986) - Irina Davidovici 6. Alessandro Mendini, Domus and the Postmodern Vision (1979-1985) - Silvia Micheli Part III. Theory and Practice: Postmodern Architects as Thinkers 7. Transition to 'Discourse': Architectural Theory in Postmodern Australia - Andrew Leach 8. Charles Moore's Perspecta Essays: Towards Postmodern Eclecticism - Patricia Morton 9. The Alibi of Style: Reading Classicism in Architectural Design Magazine (1979-1982) - Elisabeth Keslacy 10. Postmodern Architects as Theorists: the Case of the Essay Collection (1988-1998) - Stephanie Dadour Part IV. Institutionalisation 11. Institutionalising Postmodernism: reconceiving the Journal and the Exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976 -Kim Forster 12. Image, Medium, Artifact: Heinrich Klotz and the Postmodern Architecture Museum- Daniela Fabricius Bibliography Index