Architecture and Dystopia - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945150947 ISBN 13 : 9781945150944

Editeur : Actar Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

A homage to the 1973 publication of Architecture and Utopia by Manfredo Tafuri--echoed in the title--this book is devoted to the radical experiences of the 1960s and to their consequences for the most recent developments in contemporary architecture.
As a response to the profound crisis of Western culture the emerged in the 1960s, radical artists from Italy, Austria, England and Japan called into question the foundations of modernist utopias. They transmuted the difficulties of capitalism into a repertory of startling images that revealed the disturbing realities of consumer society, even in those places still resistant to the penetration of modern architecture, such as Superstudio and Archizoom's Florence. Their model, though exhausted in the space of experimentation, went on to inspire a generation of architects, from the High Tech movement to Rem Koolhaas, who sought to employ the paradigm of dystopia as both a visionary and a constructive method, one which could operate on the architecture of late capitalism and generate unexpected possibilities for urban planning.
In the light of these examples, how to define a unified "dystopian" method of design, i.e. a common ground for an architecture that, by its very nature, seems to resist systematization? Are the most recognizable architectural expressions of this theoretical framework--characterized by brazen displays of technology and structures of overwhelming scale--merely isolated cases, albeit of particular iconic power? Or do they belong to a wider landscape of antirational architectural projects? And to what extent are these disturbing expressions premised on the utopian tradition or, better yet, the conceptual model of "negative thought"? The goal of this book is to respond to such questions, thus initiating an open dialogue about the legitimacy of this critical category.
With contributions by Dario Donetti, Marco De Michelis, Oliver Elser, Dominique Rouillard, Marco Biraghi, Marie Theres Stauffer, Maddalena Scimemi, Simon Sadler, Massimiliano Savorra, and Anthony Vidler

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dario Donetti holds a PhD in Art History from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2016). He previously studied in Paris and Florence, where he earned an MA (2008) in Architectural History from the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He has co-organized exhibitions and conferences, ranging from Early Modern topics to contemporary theoretical debates, and he is the author of many publications devoted to Tuscan Renaissance and Italian architecture of the twentieth century. He is currently a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Actar Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945150947
• ISBN 13: 9781945150944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Donetti Dario
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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