This document is the table of contents for a book titled "Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture". The book is edited by Wouter Van Acker and Thomas Mical and contains 15 chapters by various contributors on topics related to ugliness and the anti-aesthetic in postmodern architecture. The table of contents provides an overview of the chapter titles and contributors.

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Architecture
and Ugliness
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Architecture
and Ugliness
Anti-Aesthetics and the
Ugly in Postmodern
Architecture
Edited by
WOUTER VAN ACKER
AND THOMAS MICAL
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CONTENTS
List of Figures viii
List of Contributors xii
Inroduction: Retracing the ugly and the anti-aesthetic as a productive
force in postmodern architecture 1
Wouter Van Acker
1 Ugliness, the anti-aesthetic and appropriation: With some remarks on
the architecture of ARM 19
John Macarthur
2 On ugliness (in architecture) 39
Bart Verschaffel
PART ONE Ugly and monstrous 57
3 Instrumentalizing ugliness: Parallels between High Victorian and
Brutalist architecture 59
Timothy M. Rohan
4 Monstrous becomings: A minor cartography 77
Heidi Sohn
5 Traces of ugliness in Bofill’s Les espaces d’Abraxas 95
Thomas Mical
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6 Post-communism and the monstrous: Skopje 2014 and other political
tales 107
Mirjana Lozanovska
7 Here be monsters 125
Andrew Leach
8 To make monsters 137
Caroline O’Donnell
PART TWO Ugly and ordinary 151
9 ‘Ugly’: The architecture of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott
Brown 153
Deborah Fausch
10 Camp ugliness: The case of Charles W. Moore 175
Patricia A. Morton
11 Architecture in El Alto: The politics of excess 193
Elisabetta Andreoli
12 The critical kitsch of Alchimia and Memphis: Design by media 209
AnnMarie Brennan
13 The immediacy of urban reality in post-war Italy: Between
neorealism’s and Tendenza’s instrumentalization of ugliness 223
Marianna Charitonidou
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14 Ugliness as aesthetic friction: Renewing architecture against the
grain 245
Lara Schrijver
15 Ugliness, or the cathectic moment of modulation between terror and
the comic in postmodern architecture 257
Wouter Van Acker
Index 279
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CONTRIBUTORS
Elisabetta Andreoli is an architectural and art historian and documentary
maker. She organized the Lina Bo Bardi exhibition at the Royal Institute
of British Architecture in 1994. Together with Adrian Forty she co-edited
Brazil’s Modern Architecture (2005). She published Bolivia Contemporanea
(2012) and The Architecture of Freddy Mamani Silvestre (2014).
AnnMarie Brennan is Senior Lecturer of Design Theory in the Faculty of
Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. She
teaches architectural history, theory and design studio subjects and her
research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, with
interests in the political economy of design, machine culture, Italian design,
the history of computing and media and architecture.
Marianna Charitonidou is a lecturer and a postdoctoral fellow at ETH
Zürich at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design of the
Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) (project: “The
Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and the Automobile Vision”),
National Technical University of Athens (project: “The Transformations of
‘Greekness’ as a Device for Exploring Post-colonial Culture”) and Athens
School of Fine Arts (project: “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano
Olivetti’s Post-war Reconstruction Agendas”).
Deborah Fausch is an architect and architectural historian and theorist
whose writings on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism,
and especially the works of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, have
appeared in many journals and essay collections.
Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney
School of Architecture, Design and Planning, where he is also Associate
Dean, Research. He writes on contemporary issues in the fields of architec-
tural history, theory and criticism. Among his books are Manfredo Tafuri
(2007), What Is Architectural History? (2010) and Rome (2017).
Mirjana Lozanovska is Associate Professor at Deakin University. Her
research deploys multidisciplinary theories of space to examine migra-
tion, mobility and exchange in architecture and the city. Her books include
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Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (2019) and Ethno-
Architecture and the Politics of Migration (2016). Mirjana is co-editor of
Fabrications: JSAHANZ.
John Macarthur is Professor at the University of Queensland where he is
Chair of Research in the School of Architecture. His research focuses on
the intellectual history of architecture, the aesthetics of architecture and its
relation to the visual arts. He is the author and editor of numerous books
including The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
(2007).
Thomas Mical is commencing as Professor of Architectural Theory at the
Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on the historical, quali-
tative and transformative attributes of spaces, with interest in the logical
and sensory models and processes used in the production of spaces, and
how these spaces then produce meanings and identities.
Patricia A. Morton is Associate Professor in the Media and Cultural
Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is the
author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931
International Colonial Exposition in Paris (2000). Her current project,
Paying for the Public Life, focuses on work by Charles W. Moore.
Caroline O’Donnell is the Edgar A. Tafel Associate Professor and director
of the M.Arch. program at Cornell University. She is the sole principal of
the design practice CODA: Caroline O’Donnell Architecture. Her first book,
Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site, was
published in 2015.
Timothy M. Rohan is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. His research focuses on European and American modernism, espe-
cially of the post-Second World War era, on subjects ranging from brutalism
to disco architecture. He is the author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
(2014).
Lara Schrijver is Professor in Architecture Theory at the University of
Antwerp Faculty of Design Sciences. Her research focuses on twentieth-
century architecture. She is the author of Radical Games (2009) and co-edi-
tor of Autonomous Architecture in Flanders (2016) and the annual review
Architecture in the Netherlands (2016–19).
Heidi Sohn is Associate Professor of Architecture Theory at the Architecture
Department of the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. Her main areas of
investigation include genealogical inquiries of postmodern and post-human
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theoretical landscapes.She is co-editor of Critical and Clinical Cartographies:
Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy (2017).
Wouter Van Acker is Associate Professor of Architectural History and
Theory at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is director of hortence,
ULB’s research centre for architectural history, theory and criticism. His
research focus is the history of epistemology and aesthetics in architecture
in the twentieth century.
Bart Verschaffel is Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism at Ghent
University. He publishes in the fields of architectural theory, aesthetics and
philosophy of culture. Book publications include Architecture Is (as) a
Gesture (2001), À propos de Balthus (2004) and Nature morte, portrait,
paysage (2007).
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