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Architecture Or Techno-Utopia - Politics After Modernism (Paperback)
Series: The Mit Press
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The first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that
puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the
"underground"-featuring the experiments, practices, and polemics of
the 1960s and 1970s. In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity
Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in
American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices
and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott
examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications,
pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as
their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and
politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far
from the mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott
suggests that their ambition-the demonstration of architecture's
ongoing potential for social and political engagement-was
nonetheless remarkable. Scott examines both the marginal and the
prominent: the Marxist architectural criticism of Meyer Schapiro;
the curatorial work of Arthur Drexler at New York's Museum of
Modern Art; Emilio Ambasz's introduction of ideas from
environmental design, European critical theory, and Italian
radicalism at MoMA; the counterculture's embrace of Buckminster
Fuller's domes; psychedelic and intermedia environments; the video
and architectural collective Ant Farm and the politics of ecology;
the early experimental practices of Rem Koolhaas; and, connecting
these earlier practices to the present day, the missed
opportunities for political engagement in the competition sponsored
by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for the World Trade
Center site. At a time of increasing receptiveness to thinking
politically about architecture and design, Architecture or
Techno-Utopia offers a detailed account of the ways in which the
work of architects and designers can speak to the contemporary
condition.
General
Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Mit Press |
Release date: |
February 2010 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
Felicity D. Scott
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Dimensions: |
178 x 227 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-51406-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
0-262-51406-0 |
Barcode: |
9780262514064 |
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