Title & Author:

Neo-avant-garde and postmodern : postwar architecture in Britain and beyond / edited by Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art ; London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ; New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xi, 420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 21

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New brutalism and pop / Alex Potts -- Softs and hards : Colin St. John Wilson and the contested visions of 1950s London / Stephen Kite -- Streets in the air : Alison and Peter Smithson's doorstep philosophy / Ben Highmore -- Brazil's brutalism : past and future decay at the FAU-USP / Richard Williams -- Continuity in rupture : postmodern architecture before architectural postmodernism / Andrew Leach -- Taking on Mies : mimicry and parody of modernism in the architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson and Venturi / Scott Brown / Martino Stierli -- "A house which grows" : Stirling and Gowan, the Smithsons, and consumer society / Mark Crinson -- Photographic images from Chicago to Hunstanton / Claire Zimmerman -- Banham's historical ecology / Michael Osman -- Shifty grids : a misalignment of James Stirling and superstudio / Sarah Treadwell -- Brutalism in New Zealand architecture : Miles Warren and the architectural image / Paul Walker -- The return of the classical : some archaeological fragments / Reinhold Martin -- Building the socialist dream or housing the socialist state? : design versus the production of housing in the 1960s / Nicholas Bullock -- Pop architecture : a toxic history / Simon Richards -- L'architecture dans le salon : the civic architecture of a projective modernism / Simon Sadler -- Afterword : No end(s) in sight / Felicity D. Scott.
This publication was facilitated by the CCA Study Centre Visiting Scholars Program.
Includes reproductions of CCA Collection material.
CCA and staff mentioned in acknowledgments.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. This collection of essays discusses the work of architects and their associates.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780300166187
0300166184

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History 20th century Themes, motives.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture, Modern Themes, motives.
Architecture Themes, motives.
Architektur
Brutalismus
Postmoderne
Architecture Great Britain 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Postmodernism.
Arkitektur Storbritannien 1900-talet.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Crinson, Mark.
Zimmerman, Claire, 1961-
Zimmerman, Claire
Centre canadien d'architecture
Centre canadien d'architecture. Centre d'étude
Studies in British art ; 21.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269999
Call No.: BIB 202527
Status: Available