1st Edition
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde A Sociological Approach
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
Biography
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).
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde presents a comprehensive account of the subject informed by rigorous research and scholarship and focused on a transformative approach within and beyond the disciplinary margins. By charting a thematic framework for understanding and analysis of numerous literary resources, it resonates deeply, aids personal growth, enhances critical thinking, and advances the academic debate on the mythologies, philosophies, and morphologies of the spatiotemporal narrative. An important book to read.
Anna Sokolina, PhD, Founder and Advising Chair, Society of Architectural Historians Women in Architecture Affiliate Group
Texts such as this don’t just resituate women within architectural history, they fundamentally reshape the terms through which that history is written, making visible the labor that has long been obscured or omitted. This kind of scholarship doesn’t simply address gaps, it challenges why those gaps existed in the first place.
Professor Harriet Harriss (Ph.D), Pratt Institute, NY
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