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Author Schrijver, Lara.

Title Radical games : popping the bubble of 1960s' architecture / Lara Schrijver ; [copy editor, D'Laine Camp]
Published Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, [2009]
©2009

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Description 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary Comparing a number of radical movements in architecture in the 1960's, this book traces a moment in the history of architecture when revolutionary ideals were paramount and dreams became drawings. The ensuing disillusionment as well as a contemporary revival of this period are enclosed within their very premises. This book explores three radical critiques of modernist architecture throughout the work of the Situationist International, Venturi and Scott Brown and Archigram. Situated on the cusp of a new time, of postmodernity and global capitalism, these critical reactions to their forebears demonstrate a perceptively critical understanding of modernism and a prescience towards contemporary conditions. At the same time, however, their dreams were so entwined with the modern project that they have created an untenable position for the contemporary architecture debate. --Book Jacket
Notes Bew. van proefschrift Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-247)
Subject Architecture -- 20th century.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Nineteen sixties.
Radical architecture -- History -- 20th century.
Author Camp, D'Laine.
Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur.
LC no. 2009521550
ISBN 9056626787 (paperback)
9789056626785 (paperback)
Other Titles Popping the bubble of 1960s' architecture
Radical games : popping the bubble of nineteen sixty's architecture