[Free pdf] Astonishing Legends Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A good overview|By A. Fineman|For an academic book, this book was surprisingly unboring and not too dense. I enjoyed it a lot. It gives a nuanced view of the different strains of architectural thought during the postmodern period.||'Architect Knows Best', Simon Richards observes wryly, as he describes how we architect-planners stride onto the urban scene asking 'where's the Big Idea?' The words 'urban vision' bring Le Corbusier to mind. But social change in the 1950s altered the terrain
The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and José Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century. Their proposals for functional zoning, multi-level transport, high-rise living, and machine-inspired aesthetics came under attack from the 1950s onwards, and many alternative approaches to architecture and planning emerg...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present (Ashgate Studies in Architecture) | Simon Richards. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
