Architectures

Modernism and After

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Edited by Andrew Ballantyne

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published December 2003, 272 pages, paper

ISBN 0631229442

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 through to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in cultural process and ethics of production.

This volume presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. In doing so, Architectures: Modernism and After provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.

Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Architectures in the Plural: Andrew Ballantyne
1. An Avant-garde Academy: Simon Sadler (University of California, Davis)
2. Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses: Sarah Menin (University of Newcastle)
3. Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand's Architect: Gerard Loughlin (University of Newcastle)
4. Steps Towards a Sustainable Architecture: Brenda and Robert Vale (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
5. Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections: Stephen Walker (University of Sheffield)
6. Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill: David Wood (University of Newcastle)
7. Domestic Space Transformed, 1850-2000: Elizabeth Cromley (Northeastern University)
8. English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital: Andrew Law (University of Newcastle)
Bibliography
Index