Radical games : popping the bubble of 1960s' architecture /
Lara Schrijver.
- 248 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Architecture and the legacy of the 1960s: crisis or opportunity? -- The city: from modernist battlefield to situationist playground -- Technology in architecture: the ghost in the machine -- ARchitecture in its own image: pop reflections -- A brave new worls : is resistance futile?.
"Comparing a number of radical movements in architecture in the 1960's, this book traces a moment in the history of architecture when revolutionary ideals were paramount and dreams became drawings. The ensuing disillusionment as well as a contemporary revival of this period are enclosed within their very premises. This book explores three radical critiques of modernist architecture throughout the work of the Situationist International, Venturi and Scott Brown and Archigram. Situated on the cusp of a new time, of postmodernity and global capitalism, these critical reactions to their forebears demonstrate a perceptively critical understanding of modernism and a prescience towards contemporary conditions. At the same time, however, their dreams were so entwined with the modern project that they have created an untenable position for the contemporary architecture debate. "--Book jacket.