Tahl Kaminer

Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (eBook, ePUB)

The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. It offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136832161
• Artikelnr.: 42508409

Autorenporträt

Tahl Kaminer is a researcher and lecturer at the Delft School of Design, TU Delft. He co-edited the volumes Urban Asymmetries (2011), Critical Tools (2011), and Houses in Transformation (2008), and is a founding member of the academic journal Footprint.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Hilde Heynen Introduction 1. Drawing 2. Discipline 3.
Methodological Considerations Part 1: Crisis and Withdrawal 4. The Void 5.
Economic and Social Crisis 6. Modernism in Retreat 7. Radical Architecture
8. Alternatives to Modernism 9. Meaning 10. Historicism 11. Collage 12.
Context 13. Freedom 14. Postmodernist Architecture 15. The Invisible
Horizon Part 2: Autonomy and the Resuscitation of the Discipline 16. The
Birth of Autonomy 17. Architectural Autonomy 18. The Commodity 19. The
Artefact 20. Paper Architecture and Autonomy 21. The Neo-Avant-Garde 22.
Autonomous Deconstruction 23. The Integration of Autonomy Part 3: The Real
24. The Revolution of Everyday Life 25. The Architecture of Everyday Life
26. The Rise of Monetarism 27. Towards the Architectural Real 28. Critique
of Planning 29. The End of the Crisis 30. Koolhaas and Freedom 31. The
SuperDutch Era 32. The Return of Anxiety Epilogue: From the Ideal to the
Simulacra and Back