Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-19127-0 (ISBN)
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it.
The sources consist of 825 well-known, globally influential European, including Russian, architectural literatures of the extended 1920s, and of Anglo-Saxon literatures of the extended 1960s to the 2010s. The book traces the connotations that the term ‘avant-garde’ acquired in them and shows the different notions under the ‘avant-garde’ signifier, directing attention to the term’s early twentieth-century roots and modes; its 1960s rising usage, modes, and function; and its post–1960s to 2010s developments. It sheds light on the sociological topography of the avant-garde, and through the writings, on the ways in which the term and avant-gardism connected, the actors, agencies, and mediators therein, on the terms’ techniques and modes, indicating the reasons for its heretofore limited systematic inquiry. The book aims at unravelling a century-old ‘avant-garde’ mystic function for unlocking horizontal, plural, and transparent conversations about interdisciplinary futures of architecture, cross-disciplinary dialogues, and liberatory dynamics. The book will therefore be relevant to scholars and researchers interested in the avant-garde in architecture, and the avant-garde as a transdisciplinary subject.
Lina Stergiou (PhD) is an architect, cultural researcher, writer, curator, educator whose research cross-breeds scholarship with design and activism, Princeton University Research Fellow, and recipient of several research grants and awards. Her publications include Against All Odds: Ethics/Aesthetics (Benaki Museum) and Revelation (Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004).
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: ‘Avant-Garde’ Coloniality of Value
Chapter One: Institution Arts, 1960s and after: Meditations on ‘Avant-Garde’ Origins, Mediation, and Agency
Chapter Two: Institution Architecture, 1920s: Avant-Gardism - ‘Avant-Garde’ -Vanguard
Chapter Three: Institution Architecture, 1960s: ‘Avant-Garde’ Roots and Function
Chapter Four: 1960s–1970s ‘Avant-Garde’ Architecture
Chapter Five: 1960s–1980s Avant-Gardism
Chapter Six: Strategy ‘Avant-Garde’ Avant-Gardism. Two Cases 1960s–1980s
Chapter Seven: ‘Russian Avant-Garde’
Chapter Eight: Avant-Garde Semiotic Domain: Subcategories and Un/Professionalisation
Appendix
Primary and Main Sources
References and Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Architecture |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 790 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-19127-9 / 1032191279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-19127-0 / 9781032191270 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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