Title & Author:

Rethinking modernism and the built environment / edited by Almantas Samalavicius.

Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Description:

xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Questioning architectural modernism and the built environment : notes on cultural texts and contexts / Almantas Samalavičius -- Urbanism and our urban future : a conversation with Witold Rybczynski -- Cities, aesthetics and beyond : a conversation with Roger Scruton -- Facing urban decline : a conversation with James Howard Kunstler -- The end of neoliberal urbanism : a conversation with Malcom Miles -- From global urban cloning to humane cities : a conversation with Steven Flusty -- Global connectivity and urban isolation : a conversation with Ulf Hannerz -- Farewell to conventional urbanism? A conversation with Nan Ellin -- Modernity and its discontents : a conversation with Leon Krier -- Revisiting and rethinking contemporary urban design : a conversation with Nikos Salingaros -- Transcending the present : a conversation with Thomas Barrie -- Durable cities and their enemies : a conversation with Samir Younes -- Modernism and its avatars : a conversation with Tom Spector -- After Utopia and iconism : a conversation with Douglas Murphy -- The blind alleys of modernism : a conversation with Malcolm Millais -- Beyond images and fictions : a conversation with Alberto Perez-Gomez -- Designing a memorable environment : a conversation with Harry Francs Mallgrave -- The impossibility of building cities : a conversation with Kenneth Frampton -- Looking backwards : a conversation with Miles Glendinning -- Approaching the end of growth : a conversation with Richard Heinberg -- Human actions versus human prospects : a conversation with Jorgen Randers -- Notes from a technoscape : a conversation with Sajay Samuel -- Urbanisation's inevitable shift : a conversation with Arnold Berleant -- Toward a greener urbanism : a conversation with Warren Karlenzig.

Summary:

"This volume is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making. Presented in the form of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, and internationally renowned architectural historians and urban thinkers, this concise book reviews and critiques the legacy of Modernism and its impact on global urbanisation. Timely, thoughtful and thought-provoking, these conversations, conducted by the editor during the last few years, urge the rejection of some of the most widespread dogmas and often dangerously limiting and misguided intellectual legacies of urban and architectural thinking. The contributors recommend a search instead for more enlightened architectural practices, urban planning, and city-making in the new millennium, when environmental problems have become particularly pressing. In this volume, readers will find not only glimpses into possible urban futures, but a thorough review of what now often appear as the shackles of the not-so-distant Modernist past."

ISBN:

1443855138 hardback
9781443855136 hardback

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Urbanization.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Urbanisation.
urbanization.

Added entries:

Samalavičius, Almantas, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304796
Call No.: BIB 250512
Status: Available