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Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture Book

Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture
Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an inchoate interregnum between an expiring modernism and an incipient post-modernism. Yet this tidy narrative tells only half the story, leaving out a second development, an evolving and , Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an inchoate interregnum between an expiring modernism and an incipient post-modernism. Yet this tidy narrative tells only half the story, leaving out a second development, an evolving and , Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture
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  • Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture
  • Written by author Sarah Williams Goldhagen
  • Published by MIT Press, September 2002
  • The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an inchoate interregnum between an expiring modernism and an incipient post-modernism. Yet this tidy narrative tells only half the story, leaving out a second development, an evolving and
  • A book on architecture's other modernisms that flourished and faded in the period after World War II.Library JournalViewing the intersection of architectural theory and practice, each of these 12 essays relates to one or more of editors Go
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Preface9
Introduction: Critical Themes of Postwar Modernism11
1Neorealism in Italian Architecture25
2An Alternative to Functionalist Universalism: Ecochard, Candilis, and ATBAT-Afrique55
3Freedom's Domiciles: Three Projects by Alison and Peter Smithson75
4Richard Neutra and the Psychology of Architectural Consumption97
5Cybernetic Theory and the Architecture of Performance: Cedric Price's Fun Palace119
6Computer Architectures: Saarinen's Patterns, IBM's Brains141
7The Monumentality of Rhetoric: The Will to Rebuild in Postwar Berlin165
8The Dangers of Eclecticism: Paul Rudolph's Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley191
9Bernard Rudofsky: Allegories of Nomadism and Dwelling215
10A Critique of Architecture: The Bitter Victory of the Situationist International239
11Jaap Bakema and the Fight for Freedom261
12Putting Metabolism Back in Place: The Making of a Radically Decontextualized Architecture in Japan279
Coda: Reconceptualizing the Modern301
Contributors325
Index328


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