Architecture and Capitalism

1845 to the Present
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-53488-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by Editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in different countries have dealt with similar economic conditions. By focussing on what previous architects experienced, you have the opportunity to avoid repeating the past.

With new essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Keller Easterling, Lauren Kogod, Robert Hewison, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Robin Schuldenfrei, Deborah Gans, Simon Sadler, Nathan Rich, and Micahel Sorkin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deamer, Peggy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction 1. 1845-1900 Straight Lines or Curved? The Victorian Values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole 2. 1880-1900 The First Chicago School and the Ideology of the Skyscraper 3. 1907-1914 The Display Window as Educator: The German Werkbund and Cultural Economy 4. 1920-1925 Capital Dwelling: Industrial Capitalism, Financial Crisis, and the Bauhaus’s Haus am Horn 5. 1925-1955 Le Corbusier and Capitalism: Big Work 6. 1960-1973 The Varieties of Capitalist Experience 7. 1965-1975 Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio and the Critique of Architectural Ideology 8. 1970-2000 Irrational Exuberance: Rem Koolhaas and the Nineties 9. 1990-2009 Globally Integrated/Locally Fractured: The Extraordinary Development of Gurgaon, India 10. 2000 Spectacular Failure: The Architecture of Late Capitalism at the Millennium Dome 11. Overview Liberal Afterward Architecture Without Capitalism

Über Autor(innen)

Peggy Deamer is aprofessor of architecture at Yale University, New Haven, USA.