Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture

Bys: Rejean Legault and Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Book Overview

The two decades after the Second World War are typically viewed as an interregnum between an expiring modernism and an incipient postmodernism. Yet this tidy narrative tells only half the story leaving out a second, concurrently developing trend in an insurgent modernism. The 12 essays in Anxious Modernisms reveal that a wide range of postwar architects and theorists -including Neutra, Saarinen and Rudofsky in the United States; ATBAT-Afrique; the Italian Neo-Realists; Alison and Peter Smithson in England; and the Metabolists in Japan - were united in their determination to renew rather than abandon the legacy of 20th-century modernism."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026257165X
• ISBN13: 9780262571654
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 7.0"