Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde (eBook)

A Sociological Approach

Lina Stergiou (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
Taylor & Francis (Verlag)
978-1-040-33901-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 1-040-33901-8 / 1040339018
• ISBN-13: 978-1-040-33901-5 / 9781040339015