Non-design : architecture, liberalism, and the market / Anthony Fontenot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontenot, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture.

City planning--History--20th century.

City planning.

Design--Philosophy.

Design.

Liberalism.

Libertarianism.

liberalism.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered preliminary pages, 387 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Architecture, liberalism and the market

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In his inventive manuscript, Anthony Fontenot reveals the affinities between Friedrich Hayek's libertarian conception of state power and the aesthetic deregulation sought by "non-design" architects and urbanists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Reyner Banham, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Jane Jacobs. These figures, generally considered liberals who rejected the cultural presuppositions of "high" architecture, sought to let capitalism reveal what the American built environment could or should be. Fontenot further limns the implications of this affinity for political liberalism, drawing surprising connections between the cultural turn away from the state and the evolution of aesthetics and the built environment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Planned order versus spontaneous order

New brutalism and the critique of socialism : non-design and the new visual order

The borax debates : from modern design to non-design

Spontaneous city : Jane Jacobs and the critique of planned order

Chaos or control : non-design and the American city

The indeterminate city

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226686066

022668606X

OCLC:

1182021950