Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (Pedagogy and Cultural Practice) - Hardcover

 
9780816628087: Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (Pedagogy and Cultural Practice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0816628084 ISBN 13: 9780816628087
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Questioning architecture's complicity with the status quo, this volume moves beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power. Historically, architecture has constructured the environments that house the dominant culture. Yet, as the essays in this work demonstrate, there exists a strong tradition of critical practice in the field, one that attempts to alter existing social power relations. Engaging the gap between modernism and postmodernism, each chapter addresses an oppositional discourse that has developed within the field and then reconstructs it in terms of a new social project: feminism; social theory; environmentalism; cultural studies; race and ethnic studies; and critical theory.

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Reseña del editor

Questioning architecture's complicity with the status quo, this volume moves beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power. Historically, architecture has constructured the environments that house the dominant culture. Yet, as the essays in this work demonstrate, there exists a strong tradition of critical practice in the field, one that attempts to alter existing social power relations. Engaging the gap between modernism and postmodernism, each chapter addresses an oppositional discourse that has developed within the field and then reconstructs it in terms of a new social project: feminism; social theory; environmentalism; cultural studies; race and ethnic studies; and critical theory.

Biografía del autor

THOMAS A. DUTTON is Professor of Architecture at Miami University, Ohio.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816628084
ISBN 13 
9780816628087
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Herausgeber
Dutton Thomas A., Mann Lian Hurst
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