Gartman, David 1950-

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.

NA680 / G38 2010

724/.7