Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects / Sylvia Lavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavin, Sylvia, author.

Contributor:

Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Postmodern--Exhibitions.

Architecture, Postmodern.

Genre:

Exhibition publications.

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2020]

Summary:

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects' and architecture's entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself. --Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).

Contents:

How architecture became attitude

Architecture itself

Architektur im widerspruch: Bauen in den USA von Mies van der Rohe bis Andy Warhol / Oliver Elser

Seattle freeway park illustrative site plan / Anna Renken

"Pro forma for a 1,500 room convention hotel / Phillip R. Denny

Walt Disney World swan hotel / Phillip R. Denny

A cloudburst of happiness, or modernism by other means

Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown buildings and drawings balance sheet / Martin Hartung

1978 Annual Report / Camila Reyes Alé

Wallace K. Harrison: New York architect press release / Kim Förster

Letter to Vincent Scully Jr. / Giulia Amoresano

Added value

"List of things stolen from car parked on 169 Columbia Heights, between midnight and 9 a.m., June 23, 1960" / Bart-Jan Polman

Pueblo: mountain, village, dance / Ivan L. Munuera

MAN transFORMS entrance floor axomometric drawing / Laurent Stalder and Samuel Korn

Fax agil amici di Disneyland / Sebastiano Fabbrini

A report on little tools of knowledge

Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center architectural and planning systems table / Maura Lucking

Automarionette / Vajdon Sohaili

Buchsbaum Loft 2 / Ivan L. Munuera

Letter to Mr. Arthur Rothstein / Margo Handwerker

"Model for Falk House (House II)" / Sarah Hearne

Free hands and airbrushes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and index.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, November 7, 2018-April 7, 2019.

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.00Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).

ISBN:

9781927071601

1927071607

9783959052283

3959052286

OCLC:

1107493166