Disorientation: Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs

by Felicity D. Scott

Viennese migr architect Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988) is most frequently recalled for curating "Architecture without Architects," the famous 1964 photography exhibition of vernacular, preindustrial structures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Far from simply a romantic or nostalgic invocation of cultures lost to industrial modernity, Rudofsky's exhibition drew on decades of speculations about modern architecture and urbanism, particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956791878
• ISBN13: 9783956791871
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 5.9"