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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154673903321

Titolo

Times of creative destruction : shaping buildings and cities in the late C20th / / Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-55091-1

1-317-01006-X

1-317-01005-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

LefaivreLiane

TzonisAlexander

Disciplina

724/.6

Soggetti

Architecture, Modern - 20th century

Architecture and society - History - 20th century

City planning - Social aspects - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

'Search for a new urbanity : commentary' -- 'Structure and randomness in museum architecture' -- 'Lobbies. Ambiguous voids in the urban fabric.' -- 'Ideological architecture. The obsolescence of Egyptian tomb style at the time of technological catacombs' -- 'Letter from Harvard' -- 'Transformations of the initial structure' -- 'The last identity crisis in architecture' -- 'The populist movement in architecture' -- 'The mechanical vs. divine body. The rise of modern design theory in Europe' -- 'Sentimental geometry and the therapeutic landscape' -- 'The narcissist phase in architecture' -- 'The grid and the pathway' -- 'The question of autonomy in architecture' -- 'The bastion as mentality' -- 'Eros, architecture and the hypnerotomachia poliphili' -- 'Huts, ships and bottleracks : design by analogy for architects and/or machines' -- 'Dirty realism. Making the stone stony' -- 'Lewis Mumford's Regionalism' -- 'Planning and tomatoes' -- 'Skin rigorism' -- 'Beyond monuments, beyond Zip-a-tone, into space/time : Shadrach Woods's Berlin Free University, a humanist architecture' -- 'Pikionis and transvisibility' -- 'Is architecture entering Le College de France?' --



'Community in the mind. A model for personal and collaborative design' -- 'Puer ludens' -- 'Region making' -- 'Putting on a pretty face'.