Title & Author:

Structuralism reloaded : rule-based design in architecture and urbanism / edited by Tomáš Valena, with Tom Avermaete, Georg Vrachliotis ; [translation into English, Ilze Mueller].

Publication:

Stuttgart : Edition A. Menges, ©2011.

Description:

391 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Papers from an international symposium held in Nov. 2009 in Munich, with additional contributions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The structuralist activity and architecture -- Heroic structuralism -- Structuralist trajectories -- Neo-structuralism and digital culture -- Case studies.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Originally developed in linguistics, the structuralist approach has been introduced as a scientific method in anthropology and other human sciences since the 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the double category of primary and secondary structure (langue and parole), essential to structuralism, in which the primary structure's system of rules determines how the secondary elements are placed in relation to one another, also advanced to a leading ideology in the field of architecture and urban planning. From its development in the Netherlands and within the Team 10 circle of architects, structuralism in architecture quickly spread worldwide.

ISBN:

9783936681475
3936681473

Subject:

Structuralism (Architecture) Congresses.
City planning History 20th century Congresses.
City planning History 21st century Congresses.
Structuralisme (Architecture) Congrès.
City planning.
Structuralism (Architecture)

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Valena, Thomas F.
Avermaete, Tom.
Vrachliotis, Georg.
Valena, Tomáš.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277044
Call No.: BIB 211689
Status: Available