Rethinking modernism and the built environment / edited by Almantas Samalavicius.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Samalavicius, Almantas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern movement (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This volume is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making. Presented in the form of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, and internationally renowned architectural historians and urban thinkers, this concise book reviews and critiques the legacy of Modernism and its impact on global urbanisation. Timely, thoughtful and thought-provoking, these conversations, conducted by the editor during the last few years, urge the rejection of some of the most widespread dogmas and often dangerously limiting and misguided intellectual legacies of urban and architectural thinking. The contributors recommend a search instead for more enlightened architectural practices, urban planning, and city-making in the new millennium, when environmental problems have become particularly pressing. In this volume, readers will find not only glimpses into possible urban futures, but a thorough review of what now often appear as the shackles of the not-so-distant Modernist past.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. On the Legacy of Modern Urbanism and Its Future Prospects

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Part II. On Disempowered Traditions and the Built Environment

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Part III. On Failures and Accomplishments of Architectural Modernism

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Part IV. On the Global Controversies of Contemporary Culture and the Prospects for Urban Sustainability

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty One

Chapter Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty Three

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 18, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

1-4438-7869-3

OCLC:

991596260