Reconstructing Architecture : Critical Discourses and Social Practices.
Material type: TextSeries: Pedagogy and Cultural PracticePublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (338 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816687435Subject(s): Architectural practice -- Decision making | Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century | Architecture, Postmodern -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstructing Architecture : Critical Discourses and Social PracticesDDC classification: 720/.1/03 LOC classification: NA1996 -- .R33 1996ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Architecture's Social Project -- 1 The Suppression of the Social in Design: Architecture as War -- 2 The F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture -- 3 Second Nature: On the Social Bond of Ecology and Architecture -- 4 Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy: Cultural Pedagogy and Architecture -- 5 Accommodation and Resistance: The Built Environment and the African American Experience -- 6 Deconstruction and Architecture -- 7 Subverting the Avant-Garde: Critical Theory's Real Strategy -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
The contributors to this volume question architecture's complicity with the status quo, moving beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power.
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