Title & Author:

Anxious modernisms : experimentation in postwar architectural culture / edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault.

Publication:

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

Description:

335 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Twelve essays originally presented at a conference held Jan. 1999.
Twelve essays originally presented at a conference held at the Centre canadien d'architecture, spring 1999.
"The second conference - Anxious Modernisms: Postwar Architectural Culture, 1943-1968 - was held at the CCA in spring 1999"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : critical themes of postwar modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault -- Neorealism in Italian architecture / Maristella Casciato -- An alternative to functionalist universalism : Écochard, Candilis and ATBAT-Afrique / Monique Eleb -- Freedom's domiciles : three projects by Alison and Peter Smithson / Sarah Williams Goldhagen -- Richard Neutra and the psychology of architectural consumption / Sandy Isenstadt -- Cybernetic theory and the architecture of performance : Cedric Price's fun palace / Mary Louis Lobsinger -- Computer architectures : Saarinen's patterns, IBM's brains / Reinhold Martin -- The monumentality of rhetoric : the will to rebuild in postwar Berlin / Francesca Rogier -- The dangers of eclecticism : Paul Rudolph's Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley / Timothy M. Rohan -- Bernard Rudofsky : allegories of nomadism and dwelling / Felicity Scott -- A critique of architecture : the bitter victory of the Situationist International / Jean-Louis Violeau -- Jaap Bakema and the fight for freedom / Cornelis Wagenaar -- Putting metabolism back in place : the making of a radically decontextualized architecture in Japan / Cherie Wendelken -- Coda : reconceptualizing the modern / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0262072084 (MIT)
9780262072083
9780262571654
026257165X
0920785654
9780920785652

Subject:

Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)
Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern 20th century

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
Essays.

Added entries:

Legault, Réjean, 1956-
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Casciato, Maristella
Eleb, Monique, 1945-
Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957-
Lobsinger, Mary Louise
Martin, Reinhold, 1964-
Rogier Francesca
Rohan, Timothy, 1968-
Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston, 1965-
Violeau, Jean-Louis
Wagenaar, Cor
Wendelken, Cherie
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)

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