Anxious modernisms : experimentation in postwar architectural culture / edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Rej́ean Legault ; [essays by] Maristella Casciato [and others].

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Anxious modernisms : experimentation in postwar architectural culture / edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Rej́ean Legault ; [essays by] Maristella Casciato [and others].

Publication:

Description:

335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : critical themes of postwar modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault -- Neorealism in Italian architecture / Maristella Casciato -- An alternative to functionalist universalism : Écochard, Candilis and ATBAT-Afrique / Monique Eleb -- Freedom's domiciles : three projects by Alison and Peter Smithson / Sarah Williams Goldhagen -- Richard Neutra and the psychology of architectural consumption / Sandy Isenstadt -- Cybernetic theory and the architecture of performance : Cedric Price's fun palace / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- Computer architectures : Saarinen's patterns, IBM's brains / Reinhold Martin -- The monumentality of rhetoric : the will to rebuild in postwar Berlin / Francesca Rogier -- The dangers of eclecticism : Paul Rudolph's Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley / Timothy M. Rohan -- Bernard Rudofsky : allegories of nomadism and dwelling / Felicity Scott -- A critique of architecture : the bitter victory of the Situationist International / Jean-Louis Violeau -- Jaap Bakema and the fight for freedom / Cornelis Wagenaar -- Putting metabolism back in place : the making of a radically decontextualized architecture in Japan / Cherie Wendelken -- Coda : reconceptualizing the modern / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

Summary:

The two decades after World War Two are usually depicted as an intermediate period between a fading modernism and an incipient postmodernism. These 12 essays argue that the period also witnessed a concurrent trend of insurgent modernist design in architecture.

ISBN:

0262072084 (MIT)
9780262072083 (MIT)
0920785654
9780920785652
026257165X
9780262571654

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Bouwkunst.
Experimenten.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Legault, Réjean, 1956-

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