The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided into three parts – Practices, Interrogations, and Innovations – this book charts diversity, criticality, and creativity in architectural interventions to meet challenges and enact changes in different parts of the world through featured exemplars and fresh theoretical orientations.
The collection features 29 chapters written by leading architectural scholars and highlights the reciprocity between the historical and the contemporary, research and practice, and disciplinary and professional knowledge. Providing an essential map for navigating the complex currents of contemporary architecture, the Companion will interest students, academics, and practitioners who wish to bolster their understanding of built environments.
Author(s): Duanfang Lu
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 508
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1 Architecture in the Age of Playfulness: Mapping a Framework for Global Historiography
Part I: Practices: Introduction
2 What is Modern Architecture?
3 Architecture and Image
4 Cold War Modernism
5 After Deconstructivist Architecture
6 Postmodern Utopianism
7 Metabolism and Beyond
8 Professional Agency and Architectural Discourse in Postcolonial India
9 Architectural Production in Dubai
10 The Afterlives of Modern Housing
11 Social-Interest Architecture in Brazil: The Seed of Something New
Part II: Interrogations: Introduction
12 Autonomy, Criticality, and the Avant-Garde
13 Crafting Architecture Criticism
14 Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture
15 Architecture and Preemptive Spectacles
16 Architecture and Phenomenology
17 Critical Regionalism: From Critical Theory to Postcolonial and Local Awareness
18 Vernacular Architecture
19 Heritage Conservation: The Rise and Fall of a "Grand Narrative"
20 Power, Empire, and Nation
21 Architecture and Globalization
Part III: Innovations: Introduction
22 Architectural and Medical Innovation in Hospital Design
23 Electric City Land: Architecture and Media
24 Divergent Matter: The Problematic Search for Material Suitability in Architecture
25 Building Mass Customised Housing Through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons From Japan
26 The Programmable Architect
27 Biomimicry for Sustainable and Regenerative Architecture
28 Design for Ageing Buildings: An Applied Research of Poikilohydric Living Walls
29 Nature, Infrastructure, and Cities
Index
