Description |
335 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents |
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 Vibleau -- 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 |
Notes |
"The second conference - Anxious Modernisms: Postwar Architectural Culture, 1943-1968 - was held at the CCA in spring 1999"--Preface |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
SUBJECT |
Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montreal, Quebec)
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Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)
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Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Modern movement (Architecture)
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Modern movement (Architecture) -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
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Legault, Réjean, 1956-
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Centre canadien d'architecture.
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LC no. |
cn 00901313 |
ISBN |
0262072084 (MIT) |
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026257165X |
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0920785654 ($52.50) |
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