| Description |
1 online resource (509 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Architecture in the Age of Playfulness: Mapping a Framework for Global Historiography -- Part I: Practices: Introduction -- 2 What is Modern Architecture? -- 3 Architecture and Image -- 4 Cold War Modernism -- 5 After Deconstructivist Architecture -- 6 Postmodern Utopianism -- 7 Metabolism and Beyond -- 8 Professional Agency and Architectural Discourse in Postcolonial India -- 9 Architectural Production in Dubai -- 10 The Afterlives of Modern Housing |
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11 Social-Interest Architecture in Brazil: The Seed of Something New -- Part II: Interrogations: Introduction -- 12 Autonomy, Criticality, and the Avant-Garde -- 13 Crafting Architecture Criticism -- 14 Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture -- 15 Architecture and Preemptive Spectacles -- 16 Architecture and Phenomenology -- 17 Critical Regionalism: From Critical Theory to Postcolonial and Local Awareness -- 18 Vernacular Architecture -- 19 Heritage Conservation: The Rise and Fall of a ""Grand Narrative -- 20 Power, Empire, and Nation -- 21 Architecture and Globalization |
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Part III: Innovations: Introduction -- 22 Architectural and Medical Innovation in Hospital Design -- 23 Electric City Land: Architecture and Media -- 24 Divergent Matter: The Problematic Search for Material Suitability in Architecture -- 25 Building Mass Customised Housing Through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons From Japan -- 26 The Programmable Architect -- 27 Biomimicry for Sustainable and Regenerative Architecture -- 28 Design for Ageing Buildings: An Applied Research of Poikilohydric Living Walls -- 29 Nature, Infrastructure, and Cities -- Index |
| Summary |
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural historians that define and shape future research, practice, and education |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317379256 |
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131737925X |
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