Architectures Modernism and After

by Ballantyne, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780631229445
• ISBN10: 0631229442
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in the cultural process and the 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 part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.

Author Biography

Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque (1997), What is Architecture? (2002), and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Series Editor's Preface	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction: Architectures in the Plural	1	(32)
Andrew Ballantyne
1 An Avant-garde Academy	33	(24)
Simon Sadler
2 Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses	57	(31)
Sarah Menin
3 Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand's Architect	88	(13)
Gerard Loughlin
4 Steps Toward a Sustainable Architecture	101	(17)
Brenda and Robert Vale
5 Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections	118	(24)
Stephen Walker
6 Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill	142	(21)
David Wood
7 Domestic Space Transformed, 1850-2000	163	(39)
Elizabeth Cromley
8 English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital	202	(25)
Andrew Law
Bibliography	227	(13)
Index	240