Times of creative destruction : shaping buildings and cities in the late C20th / Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.

Title & Author:

Times of creative destruction : shaping buildings and cities in the late C20th / Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
©2017

Description:

xii, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published in hardcover: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

'Times of Creative Destruction' is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, 'star' buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a 'desert flatland', environmental inequality and unhappiness. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events.

ISBN:

9781138616646 (paperback)
1138616648 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
City planning Social aspects History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and society.
City planning Social aspects.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tzonis, Alexander. Essays. Selections.
Lefaivre, Liane. Essays. Selections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304137
Call No.: BIB 249630
Status: Available

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