Architecture and capitalism : 1845 to the present / [edited by] Peggy Deamer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deamer, Peggy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--History.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Economic aspects.

Architecture.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current financial crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in different countries have dealt with similar conditions. By focussing on what previous architects experienced, you have the opportunity to avoid repeating the past. With new essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Keller Easterling, Lauren Kogod, Robert Hewison, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Robin Schuldenfrei, Deborah Gans, Simon Sadler, Nathan Rich, and Michael Sorkin. Book jacket.

Contents:

1800-1860. Straight Lines or Curved? The Victorian Values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole / Robert Hewison

1860-1890. The First Chicago School and the Ideology of the Skyscraper / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

1870-1914. The Display Window as Educator: The German Werkbund and Cultural Economy / Lauren Kogod

1918-1935. Capital Dwelling: Industrial Capitalism, Financial Crisis, and the Bauhaus's Haus am Horn / Robin Schuldenfrei

1918-1950. Big work: Le Corbusier and Capitalism / Deborah Gans

1943-1975. The Varieties of Capitalist Experience / Simon Sadler

1943-1975. Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio and the Critique of Architectural Ideology / Pier Vittorio Aureli

1970-2000. Irrational Exuberance: Rem Koolhaas and the 1990s / Ellen Dunham-Jones

1990-2010. Globally Integrated/Locally Fractured: The Extraordinary Development of Gurgaon, India / Nathan Rich

2000. Spectacular Failure: The Architecture of Late Capitalism at the Millennium Dome / Simon Sadler

Coda: Liberal / Keller Easterling

Afterword. Architecture Without Capitalism / Michael Sorkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415534871

0415534879

9780415534888

0415534887

OCLC:

819741780