A critical history of contemporary architecture 1960-2010 / edited by Elie G. Haddad and David Rifkind.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddad, Elie, editor.

Rifkind, David, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architettura--1960-2010--Storia.

Local Subjects:

Architettura--1960-2010--Storia.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 501 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction : Modernism and beyond : the plurality of contemporary architectures / Elie G. Haddad and David Rifkind

Modern (or contemporary) architecture circa 1959 / Peter L. Laurence

Post-modernism : critique and reaction / David Rifkind

High-tech : modernism redux / Sarah Deyong

Deconstruction : the project of radical self-criticism / Elie G. Haddad

Greening architecture : the impact of sustainability / Phillip Tabb

Postcolonial theories in architecture / Esra Akcan

Architecture in North America since 1960 / Brandan Moran

Architectural developments in Latin America : 1960-2010 / Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima

The place of commonplace : the ordinary as alternative architectural lens in Western Europe / Tom Avermaete

Dutch modern architecture : from an architecture of consensus to the culture of congestion / Frances Hsu

Metaphorical peripheries : architecture in Spain and Portugal / Xavier Costa

Architecture in Switzerland : a natural history / Laurent Stalder

Architecture in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since 1960 / Kimberly Elman Zarecor

Finland : architecture and cultural identity / Taisto H. Mäkelä

Architecture in Africa : situated modern and the production of locality / Iain Low

Global conflict and global glitter : architecture of West Asia (1960-2010) / Esra Akcan

Old sites, new frontiers : modern and contemporary architecture in Iran / Pamela Karimi

Beyond tropical regionalism : the architecture of Southeast Asia / Kelly Shannon

Internationalism and architecture in India after Nehru / Amit Srivastava and Peter Scriver

Architecture in China in the reform era : 1978-2010 / Tao Zhu

Architecture in post-World War II Japan / Ken Tadashi Oshima

Edge of centre : architecture in Australia and New Zealand after 1965 / Philip Goad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Laurence, Peter L., 1936- Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959.

ISBN:

9781472429377

1472429370

9781409439813

140943981X

1472429389

9781472429384

1472429397

9781472429391

OCLC:

857288063