Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects /

Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lavin, Sylvia, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2020] ©2020
Description:	300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Architecture, Postmodern -- Exhibitions. Architecture, Postmodern. k -- Exhibition -- v -- publications. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12040924

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Other authors / contributors:	Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, host institution.
ISBN:	9781927071601 1927071607 9783959052283 3959052286
Notes:	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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and index.

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Item Description:	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.
Physical Description:	300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and index.
ISBN:	9781927071601 1927071607 9783959052283 3959052286