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Times of Creative Destruction - Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th (Hardcover)
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Times of Creative Destruction - Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th (Hardcover)
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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, bringing
together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by
Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing
partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the
present, are significant as documents that inform about the period.
They are also important and timely because of their critical and
influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and
destructive.
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