Baird, George — The Space of Appearance

Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2003. Hardbound. Blue boards with black cloth spine and dark bluish pictorial dustjacket. XII, 393 pp. many bw illustrations and plans. After an extended introduction that situates architecture's current dilemmas within the broader currents of cultural theory, The Space of Appearance focuses on specific historical episodes or developments. Each chapter outlines a different controversy or series of controversies, or depicts the gradual and insidious erosion of certain firmly held beliefs. Each chapter is also structured around a conceptual account of issues that have evolved in the trajectory of contemporary cultural theory since the key interventions of Arendt in the 1950s. VG+/VG+ .