From autos to architecture Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century txt
Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century
David Gartman.
- 1st ed.
- 400 p. ill. 24 cm. book
Includes index.
Introduction: The problematic aesthetics of Fordism -- Modernism and the Model T : the misplaced development of the machine aesthetic -- Displaced dreams of wholeness : the Depression-era retreat of modernism -- Efficiency and fantasy : the bifurcated architecture of postwar technocracy -- Revolt against the machine : the 1960s and the death of modernism -- Disney goes downtown : post-Fordism, postmodernism, and the collapse of spatial segregation.
9781568988139 (alk. paper)
2009014437
Architecture, Modern--20th century. Architecture and society.--History--20th century.