Commodification and spectacle in architecture : a Harvard design magazine reader / edited by William S. Saunders ; introduction by Kenneth Frampton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, William S.

Series:

Harvard design magazine readers ; 1.

Harvard design magazine readers ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Economic aspects.

Architecture.

Architecture and globalization.

Architecture, Postmodern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 122 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Summary: More than ever, architectural design is seen as a means to promote commercial goals. Bringing together an impressive and varied group of critics and practitioners, this collection will help to sharpen the discussion of how design can respond to our hypercommodified culture.

Contents:

Contents: Spectacle and its discontents: or, the elusive joys of architainment / Luis Fernández Galiano

Less for less yet: on architecture's value(s) in the marketplace / Michael Benedikt

Brand aid: or, the Lexus and the Guggenheim (further tales of the notorious B.I.G.ness) / Michael Sorkin

Hyphenation nation: blurred forms for a blurred world / Rick Poynor

Architecture for sale(s): an unabashed apologia / Kevin Ervin Kelley

Rocking for the clampdown: creativity, corporations, and the crazy curvilinear cacophony of the Experience Music Project / Thomas Frank

Rockbotton: villa by OMA / Wouter Vanstiphout

Inside the blue whale: a day at the Bluewater Mall / Rick Poynor

We dig graves

all sizes / Daniel Naegele

The second greatest generation / Michael Sorkin.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-9818-X

OCLC:

299570520