Title & Author:

A second modernism : MIT, architecture, and the 'techno-social' moment / Arindam Dutta, editor with Stephanie Marie Tuerk, Michael Kubo, Jennifer Yeesue Chuong, Irina Chernyakova.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : SA+P Press : MIT Press, [2013]

Description:

ix, 916 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes transcripts of interviews with Otto Piene, Nicholas Negroponte, and N. John Habraken.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : linguistics, not grammatology : architecture's a prioris and architecture's priorities / Arindam Dutta -- The MIT Chapel : an interdiscursive history / Reinhold Martin -- How useful? : the stakes of architectural history, theory and criticism at MIT, 1945-1976 / John Harwood -- The middleman : Kepes's instruments / Anna Vallye -- Centerbeam : art of the environment / Matthew Wisnioski -- The pedagogy of prefabrication : building research at MIT in the postwar / Avigail Sachs -- Experimental dwellings : modern architecture and environmental research at the MIT Solar Energy Fund, 1938-1963 / Daniel A. Barber -- From master-planning to self-build : the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-1971 / Eric Mumford -- Fuzzy images : the problem of third world development and the new ethics of open-ended planning at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies / M. Ijlal Muzaffar -- DISCOURSE, SEEK, INTERACT : urban systems at MIT / Felicity D. Scott -- Disoriented : Kevin Lynch, around 1960 / Hashim Sarkis -- Predictive machines : data, computer maps, and simulation / Catherine F. McMahon -- Alexander's choice : how architecture avoided computer-aided design c. 1962 / Alise Upitis -- Artist/system / Caroline A. Jones -- The alternative firmitas of Maurice Smith / Mark Jarzombek -- CASE and MIT: engagement / Stanford O. Anderson -- Two Cambridges : models, methods, systems, and expertise / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- Toward a "nation of universities" : architecture and planning education at MIT circa the 1940s / Brendan D. Moran -- 1955-1956 : biography of a year in graduate school / Julian Beinart -- Three episodes, three roles / William L. Porter -- Arts/science/technology / Otto Piene in interview with Matthew Wisnioski -- We were bricoleurs / Nicholas Negroponte in interview with Molly Wright Steenson -- Structure-infill, Wittgenstein, and other matters / N. John Habraken, in interview with Alexander D'Hooghe and Arindam Dutta -- Newton's apple tree : a non-standard version / Edward Eigen -- A "techno-social" timeline.
Reproduces CCA collection material.

ISBN:

9780262019859 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
026201985X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning
Architecture Study and teaching History 20th century.
Education, Higher Social aspects History 20th century.
Architecture and technology History 20th century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture Étude et enseignement Histoire 20e siècle.
Enseignement supérieur Aspect social Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et technologie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and technology.
Architecture Study and teaching.
Education, Higher Social aspects.
Architektur
Städtebau
Architekturstudium
Arkitektur historia.
Teknik historia.
Högskoleutbildning sociala aspekter historia.
Arkitektur och samhälle historia.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Interviews.
History.

Added entries:

Dutta, Arindam, editor.
Dutta, Arindam editor of compilation.
Tuerk, Stephanie
Kubo, Michael
Chuong, Jennifer Yeesue.
Chernyakova, Irina.
Piene, Otto, 1928-2014, interviewee.
Negroponte, Nicholas interviewee.
Habraken, John, 1928- interviewee.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284239
Call No.: BIB 222944
Status: Available