Architecture of Defeat (Paperback, 1)

Part 1: Disconnection, Criticism, Form 1. From Disconnection to Connection 2. Field and Object 3. What Was Criticality? 4. The Dreariness of Form versus Freedom Part 2: Transparency, Democracy, Materialism 1. De Stijl: A Melancholic Transparency 2. Rudolf Schindler: A Vision of Democracy 3. Yoshichika Uchida: Postwar Democracy 4. Togo Murano: System and Materialism 5. Place, Building, Image: San'ai Dream Center 6. Give Us Houses, Let Us See TV: Venice Biennale 1995 7. Girls and Yogis: Venice Biennale 2000 Part 3: Brand, Virtuality, Enclosure 1. Public, Brand, Private 2. Houses and the Sex Trade 3. Concrete Time 4. Virtuality and Parasite 5. The End of Beauty 6. Enclosure Afterword