Reviews for The Culture of Exception Sociology Facing the Camp

The average rating for The Culture of Exception Sociology Facing the Camp based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-31 00:00:00 Ed Poe One of my favorites of all time. The chapter on monuments in particular was really extraordinary. How can you make a tangible visible symbol to impress the public with some idea, when all the symbolic lexicons have been let out to pasture? You get the Vietnam War Memorial, where the absence of accepted visual ideas in architecture perfectly suits the absence of accepted ideas guiding the war. The medium really is the message.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-09 00:00:00 Alicia Fehrman I'm sympathetic to the sentiment of this book --- that modernist architecture's claims to represent the common man's aesthetic went terribly awry --- this book disappointed my hopes that it would be the all-in-one smackdown of modernism. It suffers from being an combination of new material and adaptations of essays taken from multiple sources, so we get a first part that pretty much says all he wants to say and then feels padded by a bunch of talk of specifics limited to public housing in New York City. I was hoping for something deeper and more universal.