Modernity and its other: a post-script to contemporary architecture
By: Hartoonian, Gevork
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Series: Center for the advancement of architecture and culture- CASA. Malcolm Quantrill & Bruce Webb.Publisher: College Station 1997Edition: 1st Ed.Description: 190 Pages.ISBN: 0-89096-729-6.Subject(s): POSTMODERNISM; DOMINO ANDITSTRAJECTORY; LOUISKHANATTHESALKINSTITUTE | ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)DDC classification: 720 Summary: The modern/postmodern debate has been fueled by the appearance of a new world order. And, in the aftermath of sociopolitical events such as the May 1968 student uprising in France, the antiwar movement in the United States, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new set of cultural thematics has emerged. Gevork Hartoonian explores how major postfunctionalist architecture has addressed themes in postmodern culture, and in so doing argues that it is an architecture that should be viewed as historical--the gestalt of social/cultural phenomena--and not merely the product of various stylistic
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The modern/postmodern debate has been fueled by the appearance of a new world order. And, in the aftermath of sociopolitical events such as the May 1968 student uprising in France, the antiwar movement in the United States, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new set of cultural thematics has emerged. Gevork Hartoonian explores how major postfunctionalist architecture has addressed themes in postmodern culture, and in so doing argues that it is an architecture that should be viewed as historical--the gestalt of social/cultural phenomena--and not merely the product of various stylistic
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