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Architecture of Failure, The - Couverture souple

Douglas, Murphy

 
9781780990224: Architecture of Failure, The
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1780990227 ISBN 13 : 9781780990224
Editeur : Zer0 Books, 2012

Synopsis

Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored and denied in the way we design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron and glass exhibition palaces, strange, unprecedented, dream-like structures, almost all now lost, existing only as melancholy archive fragments; it traces the cultural legacy of these buildings through the heroics of the early 20th century, post-war radicals and recent developments, discussing related themes in art, literature, politics and philosophy. Critiquing the capitalist symbolism of the self-styled contemporary avant-garde, the book outlines a new history of contemporary architecture, and attempts to recover a radical approach to understanding what we build. Douglas Murphy blogs at http://www.youyouidiot.blogspot.com/

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Murphy is an architect and writer based in London.

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Éditeur
Zer0 Books
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1780990227
ISBN 13 
9781780990224
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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