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“The Obscene Bird of Night” is a class parable with no discernible lesson—but the contradiction illuminates a great deal about the nature of power.

The WZB, conceived a year later as part of the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) program, seemed to breach the codes of modernism even further. Its pavilions, diagramming historical building types, decked out in bright pink and blue stripes, and huddled behind an ornate late-nineteenth-century entrance block, seemed to many British and European critics to be a betrayal of the ethic of the Modern Movement.

The narrative of the continent continues to be burdened by the absence of a common strategy in a space of miscegenation with no shared language

Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the 1960s, reshaped his field by setting aside dry chronologies of styles and movements f

He reached beyond conventional history to bring in perspectives from literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis.