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Reconstructing architecture : critical discourses and social practices / Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 5.
- Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural practice--Decision making.
- Architectural practice.
- Architecture and society--History--20th century.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture, Postmodern--Social aspects.
- Architecture, Postmodern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8743-9
- OCLC:
- 476094173
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