The Routledge companion to contemporary architectural history / edited by Duanfang Lu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lu, Duanfang, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 491 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Companion to contemporary architectural history

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Duanfang Lu is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Associate Dean (Research Education) in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on modern architectural and planning history. Her key publications include Remaking Chinese Urban Form (Routledge, 2006, 2011) and Third World Modernism (Routledge, 2010). She is on the editorial boards of Cities and Planning Perspectives. Lu has been an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Board Director of the Society of Architectural Historians and its inaugural Chair of International Committee (2012-15), and co-founder of Society of Architectural and Urban Historians - Asia.

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural historians that define and shape future research, practice, and education. In the past few decades, the study of architecture has increasingly become a highly diverse field. This collection charts its contested territories by offering a comprehensive and provocative knowledge report of contemporary architectural history, practice, and research. It provides an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture. Divided into three parts - Histories, Interrogations, and Innovations - this book emphasizes diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars. The diverse contributions recognize multiple spatial rationalities and incorporate cross-cultural frameworks in studying the competing claims of architectural modernity. Illustrated with over 125 black and white images, this volume offers scholars, students and practitioners an evaluation of current and emerging approaches to architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 01, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to contemporary architectural history

ISBN:

9781315674469

1315674467

9781317379232

1317379233

9781317379256

131737925X

9781317379249

1317379241

OCLC:

1246677519

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.