Architecture or Techno-Utopia Politics after Modernism

Name: Architecture or Techno-Utopia Politics after Modernism
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ISBN: 9780262195621

ISBN-10: 0262195623

ISBN-13: 9780262195621

Edition: 2007

Authors: Felicity D. Scott

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Jennifer A. Gonzï¿½lez is Associate Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, Bomb, numerous exhibition catalogs, and anthologies, including With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture and Race in Cyberspace.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The (Second) Machine Age And After



A Vital Bearing On Socialism



Architecture Or Techno-Utopia



When Systems Fail



Designing Environment



Italian Design And The New Political Landscape



Revolutionaries Or Dropouts



Acid Visions



Shouting Apocalypse



Involuntary Prisoners Of Architecture


Notes


Index