A Second Modernism
MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Moment
$144.81
- Hardcover
928 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2013
Summary
An account of architecture’s postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise.After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture-an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman’s words, “to transform architecture from a ‘soft’ aesthetic discipline into a ‘hard,’ objectively verifiable field of design expertise.” Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cyberneti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262019859 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026201985X |
| Author: | Arindam Dutta, Stephanie Tuerk, Michael Kubo, Jennifer Yeesue Chuong, Irina Chernyakova |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 928 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 1.97kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 165mm x 41mm |
| Series: | A Second Modernism |
About The Author
Arindam Dutta
Arindam Dutta is Associate Professor of Architectural History and directs the Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) Program in MIT’s Department of Architecture. He is the author of The Bureaucracy of Beauty- Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility.Stephanie Tuerk is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a practicing architect.Irina Chernyakova manages communications, including book and journal publications, and public programs at the MIT Department of Architecture, from which she graduated with a master’s degree in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture and art.
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