Behind the postmodern facade : architectural change in late twentieth-century America /
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...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1993.
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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.