A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Moment.
A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Moment.
$65.00
Dutta, Arindam ed.
MIT. 2013
Book ID; 94759
After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture -- an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, "to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise." Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the "techno-social" turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar.
928 pp. Cl.
