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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457658703321

Titolo

Reconstructing architecture [[electronic resource] ] : critical discourses and social practices / / Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8743-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

DuttonThomas A

MannLian Hurst

Disciplina

720/.1/03

Soggetti

Architectural practice - Decision making

Architecture and society - History - 20th century

Architecture, Postmodern - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Architecture's Social Project; 1 The Suppression of the Social in Design: Architecture as War; 2 The F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture; 3 Second Nature: On the Social Bond of Ecology and Architecture; 4 Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Cultural Pedagogy and Architecture; 5 Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience; 6 Deconstruction and Architecture; 7 Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The contributors to this volume question architecture's complicity with the status quo, moving beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power.