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!Architecture and Rhetoric
Text and Design in Architectural Competitions, Oslo 1939-90
Oslo Schobf
of Architecture
CONTENTS
Preface 5
Introduction 7
PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES
I The tradition of architectural competitions 16 II Visual representation in architectural competitions 22 III Texts in architectural competitions 28
IV The material 32
V Three short preludes: images of Oslo and functionalism 34
PART TWO: ARCHITECTURE AND RHETORIC
VI Newness as goodness: a story of discontinuity and contrast 40 VII Monumentality, anti-monumentality and identity 68 VIII Interlude: Norwegian consensus and postwar inputs 82 IX Space and conceptions of use: a story of steady development 86
X Order and spatial poetry 122 XI Façades and interfaces: a story of sameness and continuity 134 XII Castles in the air, mirrors and foundations 160
Final remarks 174
Appendices 178
Bibliography 196
Index of proper names 202 Detailed table of contents 205
Epilogue 209