Main entry:

Lavin, Sylvia, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects / Sylvia Lavin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2020]
©2020

Description:

300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, November 7, 2018-April 7, 2019.
Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.00Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).
Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects' and architecture's entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself. Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and index.
How architecture became attitude -- Architecture itself -- Architektur im widerspruch: Bauen in den USA von Mies van der Rohe bis Andy Warhol / Oliver Elser -- Seattle freeway park illustrative site plan / Anna Renken -- "Pro forma for a 1,500 room convention hotel / Phillip R. Denny -- Walt Disney World swan hotel / Phillip R. Denny -- A cloudburst of happiness, or modernism by other means -- Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown buildings and drawings balance sheet / Martin Hartung -- 1978 Annual Report / Camila Reyes Alé -- Wallace K. Harrison: New York architect press release / Kim Förster -- Letter to Vincent Scully Jr. / Giulia Amoresano -- Added value -- "List of things stolen from car parked on 169 Columbia Heights, between midnight and 9 a.m., June 23, 1960" / Bart-Jan Polman -- Pueblo: mountain, village, dance / Ivan L. Munuera -- MAN transFORMS entrance floor axomometric drawing / Laurent Stalder and Samuel Korn -- Fax agil amici di Disneyland / Sebastiano Fabbrini -- A report on little tools of knowledge -- Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center architectural and planning systems table / Maura Lucking -- Automarionette / Vajdon Sohaili -- Buchsbaum Loft 2 / Ivan L. Munuera -- Letter to Mr. Arthur Rothstein / Margo Handwerker -- "Model for Falk House (House II)" / Sarah Hearne -- Free hands and airbrushes
Includes reproductions of CCA Collection material.

Summary:

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects' and architecture's entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself. --Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).

ISBN:

9781927071601 (soft cover)
1927071607
9783959052283 paperback
3959052286 paperback

Subject:

Architecture, Postmodern Exhibitions.
Architecture postmoderne Expositions.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection
Centre canadien d'architecture Publishing

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture issuing body, organizer, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 309493
Call No.: NA682.P67 L38 2020
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Location: Library main 309494
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Status: External loan

Location: Library cage cca productions 309491
Call No.: 2018-6
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Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 309492
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Status: Available