politics after modernism Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston 1965- creator text bibliography mau 2007 monographic eng

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x, 347 p. ill. ; 23 cm. "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 examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far from the mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott suggests that their ambition - the demonstration of architecture's ongoing potential for social and political engagement - was nonetheless remarkable."--Jacket. Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - The (second) machine age and after -- Chapter 1 - A vital bearing on socialism -- Chapter 2 - Architecture or techno--utopia -- Chapter 3 - When systems fail -- Chapter 4 - Designing environment -- Chapter 5 - Italian design and the new political landscape -- Chapter 6 - Revolutionaries or dropouts -- Chapter 7 - Acid visions -- Chapter 8 - Shouting apocalypse -- Chapter 9 - Involuntary prisoners of architecture -- Notes -- Index -- Felicity D. Scott. Include index Include bibliography Architecture United States History 20th century Architecture and society United States History 20th century Architecture and Technology United States History 20th century Architecture, Postmodern United States NA712 S36 2007 720.9730904 9780262514064 0262514060 pucpr 031111 20220406171750.0 eng