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What is architecture's place in the world? Combining history, theory, and polemic,George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and thecritique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure ofthese theories to develop an architecture that is politically engaged and affirmative of the publicsphere.Hannah Arendt's imperative of worldliness plays a pivotal role in Baird's reading of what hascome to be called architecture's belief system. It is not enough, he argues, to reject thetotalizing models of publicness that have been typical both of modernism and of many of itspostmodern successors. Rather, he insists, it is necessary to construct a "space of appearance" thatis large and diverse enough to make places for all of us. Baird stakes out clearly and sharply therecent history of ideas that bear on the field, recovering influences and ideas that have beenomitted from standard histories of modernism and building an understanding of our present dilemmasthat is constructive and critically informed.The period from 1960 to the present has seen thecollapse of the conditions that shored up modern architecture, as conventionally understood, and hasalso seen modernism succeeded by a whole series of tentative alternatives, none of which hassuccessfully achieved the decisive legitimization modernism once held. After an extendedintroduction that situates architecture's current dilemmas within the broader currents of culturaltheory, The Space of Appearance focuses on specific historical episodes or developments.Each chapteroutlines a different controversy or series of controversies, or depicts the gradual and insidiouserosion of certain firmly held beliefs. Each chapter is also structured around a conceptual accountof issues that have evolved in the trajectory of contemporary cultural theory since the keyinterventions of Arendt in the 1950s.
作者簡介
George Baird is Partner in Baird/Sampson Architects in Toronto and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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