In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individua...

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...