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Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the social orientation of the 1960s. Yet, these two architects pioneered a more situated autonomy, initiating an intellectual discourse on architecture that was inherently design-based. Their work provides room for interpreting social conditions and disciplinary formal developments, thus constructing a `plausible' relationship between the two that allows the life within to flourish and adapt. In doing so, they provide a foundation for recalibrating architecture today.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 206
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 October 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837657593
Format: Paperback
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Lara Schrijver is professor in architecture theory at the University of Antwerp Faculty of Design Sciences. She has served as editor for OASE journal for architecture and is editor for the KNOB Bulletin. She is the author of Radical Games (2009) and has published and lectured widely on twentieth-century architecture and its theories.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Preface: Architecture and Disciplinary Crises 9
Chapter 1. The 1970s: Reclaiming Autonomy for the Fait Social 19
Chapter 2. From Delirium to Archipelago, the Postmodern Collective in the City 53
Chapter 3. The House: Crystallized Architecture Thinking 87
Chapter 4. Elements, Rules and Conventions: Architecture as Material Knowledge 121
Epilogue: Recalibrating the Profession 159
Sources 165
Notes 173