Neo-Avant-Garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond.

Crinson, Mark & Claire Zimmerman (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0300166184 / ISBN 13: 9780300166187

Published by New Haven & London: Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies of British Art,, 2010

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Studies in British Art, 21] Contents: New brutalism and pop / Alex Potts -- Softs and hards: Colin St. John Wilson and the contested visions of 1950s London / Stephen Kite -- Streets in the air: Alison and Peter Smithson's doorstep philosophy / Ben Highmore -- Brazil's brutalism: past and future decay at the FAU-USP / Richard Williams -- Continuity in rupture: postmodern architecture before architectural postmodernism / Andrew Leach -- Taking on Mies: mimicry and parody of modernism in the architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson and Venturi / Scott Brown / Martino Stierli -- "A house which grows": Stirling and Gowan, the Smithsons, and consumer society / Mark Crinson -- Photographic images from Chicago to Hunstanton / Claire Zimmerman -- Banham's historical ecology / Michael Osman -- Shifty grids: a misalignment of James Stirling and superstudio / Sarah Treadwell -- Brutalism in New Zealand architecture: Miles Warren and the architectural image / Paul Walker -- The return of the classical: some archaeological fragments / Reinhold Martin -- Building the socialist dream or housing the socialist state?: design versus the production of housing in the 1960s / Nicholas Bullock -- Pop architecture: a toxic history / Simon Richards -- L'architecture dans le salon: the civic architecture of a projective modernism / Simon Sadler -- Afterword: No end(s) in sight / Felicity D. Scott. 250 x 180 mm. xi, 420 pp., 103 illustrations, 76 in colour. [ISBN: 978-0300166187] Hardbound. A very good bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Neo-Avant-Garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond.
• Publisher: New Haven & London: Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies of British Art,
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300166184
• ISBN 13: 9780300166187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. Compelling continuities between the two, especially in postwar Britain, suggest that a new account is needed. This collection of provocative essays discusses the work of architects and their associates, including Alice and Peter Smithson, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, James Stirling, James Gowan, Eduardo Paolozzi, Leon Krier, Allan Greenberg, Reyner Banham, and Charles Jencks, and explores why the debate over postwar modernism was especially vocal in Britain. Essays by sixteen distinguished scholars examine such topics as Brutalism, pop architecture, 1950s London, the legacy of Mies van der Rohe, housing, civic architecture, Italian neo-realism, and changing alignments in theory and philosophy of the period. While the essays focus on Britain, they also look beyond to Brazil, New Zealand, and the United States, expanding the discussion to include new kinds of internationalization that developed rapidly in the postwar period and set the stage for architectural developments today.

About the Author

Mark Crinson is professor of art history at the University of Manchester. Claire Zimmerman is assistant professor of art history and architecture at the University of Michigan.