Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dutton, Thomas A. (Editor), Mann, Lian Hurst (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1996.
Series:Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 5.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architectural practice > Decision making.
Architecture and society > History > 20th century.
Architecture, Postmodern > Social aspects.
Architecture et société > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Architecture postmoderne > Aspect social.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architectural practice > Decision making
Architecture and society
Architecture, Postmodern > Social aspects
Bouwkunst.
Architectuurtheorieën.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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