Architecture or techno-utopia : politics after modernism / Felicity D. Scott.
Imprint
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
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CCQ - Lusail Female Library
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Description
x, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-330) and index.
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 --
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 exa