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Second Modernism
Arindam (Edit Dutta
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Description for Second Modernism
Hardcover. Editor(s): Dutta, Arindam. Num Pages: 928 pages, 81 color illus., 286 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 180 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1958.
An account of architecture's postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise. After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture-an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise. Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the techno-social turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and ... Read more
An account of architecture's postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise. After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture-an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise. Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the techno-social turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
928
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1932g
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262019859
SKU
V9780262019859
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About Arindam (Edit Dutta
Arindam Dutta is Associate Professor of Architectural History and directs the Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) Program in MIT's Department of Architecture. He is the author of The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility. Stephanie Tuerk is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a practicing architect. Irina Chernyakova manages communications, ... Read more
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