Behind the postmodern facade : architectural change in late twentieth-century America /

• Main Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική πρακτική > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής.; Αρχιτεκτονική > Τεχνολογικές καινοτομίες > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής.; Αρχιτέκτονες > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ψυχολογία.; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

Born amidst the furious social changes of the mid-1960s, postmodern architecture redefined the purposes of a prestigious profession. In this work, Magali Sarfatti Larson gives a bold and comprehensive account of the social, economic, and ideological shifts that cracked the modernist dogma and reintr...

Table of Contents:

• Part One: The background of architectural change
• Architecture As Art and Profession
• Architectural Change in the Twentieth Century
• Part Two: The postindustrial matrix of American architecture
• Architecture in the Political Economy of Cities
• The Perception of Structure: Firms, Clients, and Career Settings in the Design Elite
• Part Three: The revision of the modern
• Architects and Creative Work
• Design and Discourse in a Period of Change: The Protagonist's View
• Mapping a Paradigm's Demise: The View from a Symbolic Reward System
• The Autonomous Transformation: Paper Architecture, 1966-85.