Experiments With Life Itself: Radical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959 - Couverture souple

Gonzalez De Canales, Francisco

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8492861657 ISBN 13 : 9788492861651

Editeur : ActarD Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misfortune about which little can be said. However, it was in these dark times, as in so many other revealing moments in the history of culture, that experimental and profoundly invigorating experiences were taking place. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. In Experiments with Life Itself, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francisco González de Canales studied architecture in Seville, Barcelona and at Harvard University. An active critic of contemporary architecture, he is presently the coordinator of curatorial practices/cultural products for the Architectural Association (AACP), London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ActarD Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8492861657
• ISBN 13: 9788492861651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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