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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816628084 ISBN 13: 9780816628087

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Lian Hurst Mann is an architect and former editor of Architecture California. A founding member of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, she is editor of its bilingual quarterly Ahora Now and a coauthor of Reconstructing Los Angeles from the

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816628084
• ISBN 13: 9780816628087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Dutton Thomas A., Mann Lian Hurst