A critical history of contemporary architecture : 1960-2010 / edited by Elie G. Haddad and David Rifkind.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Modernism and Beyond: The Plurality of Contemporary Architectures; PART I MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS AFTER MODERNISM; 1 Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959; 2 Post-Modernism: Critique and Reaction; 3 High-Tech: Modernism Redux; 4 Deconstruction: The Project of Radical Self-Criticism; 5 Greening Architecture: The Impact of Sustainability; 6 Postcolonial Theories in Architecture; PART II ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD; 7 Architecture in North America since 1960; 8 Architectural Developments in Latin America: 1960-2010.

9 The Place of Commonplace: The Ordinary as Alternative Architectural Lens in Western Europe10 Dutch Modern Architecture: From an Architecture of Consensus to the Culture of Congestion; 11 Metaphorical Peripheries: Architecture in Spain and Portugal; 12 Architecture in Switzerland: A Natural History; 13 Architecture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since 1960; 14 Finland: Architecture and Cultural Identity; 15 Architecture in Africa: Situated Modern and the Production of Locality; 16 Global Conflict and Global Glitter: Architecture of West Asia (1960-2010).

17 Old Sites, New Frontiers: Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Iran18 Beyond Tropical Regionalism: The Architecture of Southeast Asia; 19 Internationalism and Architecture in India after Nehru; 20 Architecture in China in the Reform Era: 1978-2010; 21 Architecture in Post-World War II Japan; 22 Edge of Centre: Architecture in Australia and New Zealand after 1965; Index.

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussio.

Text in English.

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