Description
Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment.
- Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment.
- Presents crucial “moments” in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances.
- Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
- Part of the New Interventions in Art History Series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.
CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations.
- Notes on Contributors.
- Series Editor’s Preface.
- Preface.
- Introduction: Architectures in the Plural: Andrew Ballantyne.
- 1. An Avant-garde Academy: Simon Sadler (University of California, Davis).
- 2. Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses: Sarah Menin (University of Newcastle).
- 3. Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand’s Architect: Gerard Loughlin (University of Newcastle).
- 4. Steps Towards a Sustainable Architecture: Brenda and Robert Vale (University of Auckland, New Zealand).
- 5. Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Dissections: Stephen Walker (University of Sheffield).
- 6. Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill: David Wood (University of Newcastle).
- 7. Domestic Space Transformed, 1850-2000: Elizabeth Cromley (Northeastern University).
- 8. English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital: Andrew Law (University of Newcastle).
- Bibliography, Index
272 pages / 15 x 23 cm / English
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