Main entry:

Deamer, Peggy, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and capitalism : 1845 to the present / Peggy Deamer.

Publication:

©2014
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Description:

xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Timeline -- Context: 1800-1860 -- Straight lines or curved? The Victorian values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole / Robert Hewison -- Context: 1860-1890 -- The first Chicago school and the ideology of the skyscraper / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Context: 1870-1914 -- The display window as educator: the German Werkbund and cultural economy / Lauren Kogod -- Context: 1918-1935 -- Capital dwelling: industrial capitalism, financial crisis, and the Bauhaus's Haus am Horn / Robin Schuldenfrei -- Context: 1918-1950 -- Big work: Le Corbusier and capitalism / Deborah Gans -- Context: 1943-1975 -- The varieties of capitalist experience / Simon Sadler -- Context: 1943-1975 -- Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio and the critique of architectural ideology / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Context: 1970-2000 -- Irrational exuberance: Rem Koolhaas and the 1990s / Ellen Dunham-Jones -- Context: 1990-2010 -- Globally integrated/locally fractured: the extraordinary development of Gurgaon, India / Nathan Rich -- Context: 2000 -- Spectacular failure: the architecture of late capitalism at the Millennium Dome / Simon Sadler -- Coda : Liberal / Keller Easterling -- Afterword : Architecture without capitalism / Michael Sorkin.

Summary:

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by Editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in different countries have dealt with similar economic conditions. By focussing on what previous architects experienced, you have the opportunity to avoid repeating the past.

Resources:
Dawsonera
E-book
E-book - Full text from Dawsonera

ISBN:

9780415534871 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415534879 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415534888 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415534887 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780203499023
0203499026

Subject:

Architecture and society History.
Architecture Economic aspects.
Architecture et société Histoire.
Architecture Aspect économique.
Architecture and society.
Architektur
Wirtschaftliche Lage

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284886
Call No.: BIB 224118
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available