Title & Author:

Architecture and dystopia / edited by Dario Donetti.

Publication:

New York ; Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2019.

Description:

231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-225) and index.
Architecture and dystopia, or negative thinking as a design method / Dario Donetti -- Utopia rediviva, 1960-1972 / Anthony Vidler -- Manfredo Tafuri and the death of architecture / Marco De Michelis -- Dystopia : a positive narrative for architecture / Dominique Rouillard -- Architecture on paper : Cedric Price and the scientific aesthetic of diagrams / Maddalena Scimemi -- Learning from no-stop city : archizooms utopia revisited / Marie Therese Stauffer -- Leisure in a time of utopia / Massimiliano Savorra -- Games without Frontiers / Simon Sadler -- Reality as dystopia : urban contemporary visions / Marco Biraghi.

Summary:

A homage to the 1973 publication 'Architecture and Utopia' by Manfredo Tafuri--echoed in the title--this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture. How to define a unified dystopian method of design, i.e. a common ground for an architecture that, by its very nature, seems to resist systematization? Are the most recognizable architectural expressions of this theoretical framework characterized by brazen displays of technology and structures of overwhelming scale merely isolated cases, albeit of particular iconic power? Or do they belong to a wider landscape of antirational architectural projects? And to what extent are these disturbing expressions premised on the utopian tradition or, better yet, the conceptual model of negative thought? The goal of this book is to respond to such questions, thus initiating an open dialogue about the legitimacy of this critical category.

ISBN:

9781945150944 (paperback)
1945150947 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Visionary architecture.
Dystopias.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture visionnaire.
Dystopies.
visionary architecture.
dystopias.

Form/genre:

Dystopias

Added entries:

Donetti, Dario, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308757
Call No.: BIB 254091
Status: Available