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Author Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston, 1965-

Title Architecture or techno-utopia : politics after modernism / Felicity D. Scott
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description x, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents The (second) machine age and after -- A vital bearing on socialism -- Architecture or techno-utopia -- When systems fail -- Designing environment -- Italian design and the new political landscape -- Revolutionaries or dropouts -- Acid visions -- Shouting apocalypse -- Involuntary prisoners of architecture
Summary "In Architecture or Techno-utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far from the mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott suggests that their ambition - the demonstration of architecture's ongoing potential for social and political engagement - was nonetheless remarkable."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-330) and index
Subject Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Postmodern -- United States.
LC no. 2006036346
ISBN 0262195623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262195621 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262514064