Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik des Lebendigen - Jahresring #62 - Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst: édition anglaise - Couverture souple

D., Scott Felicity

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3956791878 ISBN 13 : 9783956791871

Editeur : Sternberg Press, 2016

Synopsis

L'historienne de l'architecture Felicity D. Scott revisite les enseignements de Bernard Rudofsky sur l'architecture vernaculaire à la lumière de sa relation avec le Japon. Une occasion de découvrir la pensée de l'architecte viennois, urbaniste utopique contre le formalisme de la modernité industrielle.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Viennese émigré architect Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988) is most frequently recalled for curating ''Architecture without Architects,'' the famous 1964 photography exhibition of vernacular, preindustrial structures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Far from simply a romantic or nostalgic invocation of cultures lost to industrial modernity, Rudofsky's exhibition drew on decades of speculations about modern architecture and urbanism, particularly their semantic, technological, institutional, commercial, and geopolitical influences. ____________________ Focusing on Rudofsky's encounters with Japan in the 1950s--he described postwar Japan as a ''rear-view mirror'' of the American way of life--architectural historian Felicity D. Scott revisits the architect's readings of the vernacular both in the United States and Japan, which resonate with his attempts to imagine architecture and cities that refused to communicate in a normative sense. In a contemporary world saturated with visual information, Rudofsky's unconventional musings take on a heightened resonance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sternberg Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3956791878
• ISBN 13: 9783956791871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible