Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the Present

Name: Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780415534888

ISBN-10: 0415534887

ISBN-13: 9780415534888

Edition: 2014

Authors: Peggy Deamer

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Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Peggy Deamer is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.



Notes on contributors


Timeline


Preface



Introduction




Straight lines or curved? The Victorian values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole




The first Chicago school and the ideology of the skyscraper




The display window as educator: the German Werkbund and cultural economy




Capital dwelling: industrial capitalism, financial crisis, and the Bauhaus's Haus am Horn




Big work: Le Corbusier and capitalism




The varieties of capitalist experience




Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio, and the critique of architectural ideology




Irrational exuberance: Rem Koolhaas and the 1990s




Globally integrated/locally fractured: the extraordinary development of Gurgaon, India




Spectacular failure: the architecture of late capitalism at the Millennium Dome



Coda: liberal



Afterword: architecture without capitalism



Index