1. Late-modern theory. Introduction : end of an era? ; Late modernism and post-modernism ; The rhetoric of late-modernism : a pictorial essay -- 2. Late-modern practice. James Stirling's corporate culture machine ; Stirling's St. Andrew's dormitories ; The supersensualists I & II ; The pluralism of Japanese architecture ; Irrational rationalism : the rats since 1960 -- 3. Serious jokes. Philip Johnson : the candid King Midas of New York camp ; Bruce Goff : the Michelangelo of kitsch -- 4. History and theory. The Tory interpretation of history ; Architecture and morality.
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