A+U 598 Architecture In The 70s

ISBN: 9784900212534

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Guest editor Yasuhiro Teramatsu turns this issue’s focus on the turbulent 1970s. Precluded by the May Revolution of 1968 – a turning point for post-war society that encompassed many social and cultural reforms – the following decade’s sense of crisis and uncertainty nevertheless played out alongside a period of new thinking and experimentation in the architectural field. Historian of architectural theory Harry F. Mallgrave offers an analysis of the discourses that were particularly important and their connections to architecture, while taking into account the zeitgeist of this transformative period. Featuring numerous exemplary works, the result is a vital cross-section of the decade.

152 pages, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Weight 1 kg
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2020

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152

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Guest editor Yasuhiro Teramatsu turns this issue’s focus on the turbulent 1970s. Precluded by the May Revolution of 1968 – a turning point for post-war society that encompassed many social and cultural reforms – the following decade’s sense of crisis and uncertainty nevertheless played out alongside a period of new thinking and experimentation in the architectural field. Historian of architectural theory Harry F. Mallgrave offers an analysis of the discourses that were particularly important and their connections to architecture, while taking into account the zeitgeist of this transformative period. Featuring numerous exemplary works, the result is a vital cross-section of the decade.

CONTENTS

I. The Presumed Crisis of Meaning
White & Gray: Eleven Modern American Architects, Peter D. Eisenman and Robert A. M. Stern
Bye Residence, John Hedjuk / House VI, Peter Eisenman / Office for Gunwyn Ventures, Michael Graves / House in Connecticut, Robert A. M. Stern / Franklin Court, Robert Venturi / Vacation House in Maine, Edward Larrabee Barnes / Douglas House Richard Meier / Austrian Travel Agency, Main Office, Hans Hollein / The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Arata Isozaki
Commentary: Architecture in 70s Jun Aoki
II. The Real Crisis of Urban Theory
Essay Reprint: Analogical Architecture Aldo Rossi
Gallaratese Housing, Primary school in Fagnano Olona, San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, Theater of the World, Aldo Rossi / Church of the Sacra Famiglia, Paolo Portoghesi
Essay Reprint: Architecture and Building – The reconstruction of a collective language as demonstrated in the project for the Quartier de la Villette Léon Krier
The middle school of Morbio Inferiore, Mario Botta / Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, Bouca Housing Complex, Álvaro Siza
Essay Reprint: to catch a precise moment of flittering image in all its shades Álvaro Siza
Alexandra Road Estate, Neave Brown / Student Housing, University of Louvain, Lucien Kroll / Central Beheer, Herman Hertzberger / Hillside Terrace Apartment Phase 3, Fumihiko Maki
III. The First Stirrings of the Ecology Movement, both Natural and Human
Sydney Opera House Jørn Utzon and others / Olympiastadion,
Munich Frei Otto, Gunter Behnisch
Interview Reprint: Questionnaire to Norman Foster
IBM Pilot Headquarters, Willis Faber & Dumas, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts 102, Norman Foster
Essay Reprint: LL (Long Life) / LF (Loose Fit) / LE (Low Energy) versus Foster
Reyner Banham
UOP, Georges Pompidou Cultural Center, Piano and Rogers
Essay Reprint: Piano + Rogers’ Architectural Method Reyner Banham
World Trade Center, Minoru Yamasaki / Sears Tower, SOM / Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Gunnar Birkerts / Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri
Appendix. The Vernacular and the Language of Modernism
Gehry House, Frank Gehry / House in Uehara, Kazuo Shinohara / Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragán / Arango Residence, John Lautner / Bagsvaerd Church, Can Lis, Jørn Utzon / Holscher House, Knud Holscher / Hedmark Museum, Archbishopric Museum, Sverre
Fehn / Islev Church Inger & Johannes Exner

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