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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 720/.1/03
• Soggetto topico: Architectural practice - Decision making; Architecture and society - History - 20th century; Architecture, Postmodern - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DuttonThomas A MannLian Hurst
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reconstructing architecture
• ISBN: 0-8166-8743-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457658703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; v. 5.