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Architecture or techno-utopia : politics after modernism / Felicity D. Scott.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and technology.
- History.
- Architecture and society.
- United States.
- Architecture and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture and technology--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture, Postmodern--United States.
- Architecture, Postmodern.
- Physical Description:
- x, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the " underground" --featuring the experiments, practices, and polemics of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Contents:
- The (second) machine age and after
- A vital bearing on socialism
- Architecture or techno-utopia
- When systems fail
- Designing environment
- Italian design and the new political landscape
- Revolutionaries or dropouts
- Acid visions
- Shouting apocalypse
- Involuntary prisoners of architecture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262195621
- 0262195623
- OCLC:
- 74965087
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