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.

Table of 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

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