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Title Anxious modernisms : experimentation in postwar architectural culture / edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault
Published Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2000]
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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)
Anxious modernisms (1999 : Montréal, Québec)
Subject Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Modern movement (Architecture) -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Legault, Réjean, 1956-
Centre canadien d'architecture.
LC no. cn 00901313
ISBN 0262072084 (MIT)
026257165X
0920785654 ($52.50)