1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History
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.
Table of Contents
- Architecture in the Age of Playfulness: Mapping a Framework for Global Historiography – Duanfang Lu
- What Is Modern Architecture? – Mark Crinson
- Architecture and Image – Hal Foster
- Cold War Modernism – Greg Castillo
- Deconstructivist Architecture – Jennifer Ferng
- Postmodern Utopianism – Simon Sadler
- Metabolism and Beyond – Hajime Yatsuka
- Professional Agency and Architectural Discourse in Postcolonial India – Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava
- Architectural Production in Dubai – Kevin Mitchell
- The Afterlives of Modernist Housing – Cecilia L. Chu
- Social-Interest Architecture in Brazil: The Seed of Something New – Daniela Sandler
- Autonomy, Criticality, and the Avant-Garde – Tahl Kaminer
- Crafting Architectural Criticism – David Leatherbarrow
- Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture – Lilian Chee
- Architecture and Preemptive Spectacles – Andrzej Piotrowski
- Architecture and Phenomenology – David Seamon
- Critical Regionalism: From Critical Theory to Postcolonial and Local Awareness – Vincent B. Canizaro
- Vernacular Architecture – Marcel Vellinga
- Heritage Conservation: The Rise and Fall of a "Grand Narrative" – Miles Glendinning
- Power, Empire, and Nation – Anoma Pieris
- Architecture and Globalization – Anthony D. King
- Architectural and Medical Innovation in Hospital Design – Annmarie Adams
- Electric City Land: Architecture and Media – Mitchell Schwarzer
- Divergent Matter: The Problematic Search for Material Suitability in Architecture – Blaine Brownell
- Building Mass Customized Housing through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan – James Barlow and Ritsuko Ozaki
- The Programmable Architect – Rizal Muslimin
- Biomimicry for Sustainable and Regenerative Architecture – Maibritt Pedersen Zari
- Design for Ageing Buildings: An Applied Research of Poikilohydric Living Walls – Marcos Cruz
Part I. Practices: Introduction
Part II. Interrogations: Introduction
III. Innovations: Introduction
29. Nature, Infrastructure, and Cities – Antoine Picon
Biography
Duanfang Lu is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Associate Dean (Research Education) in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She is ranked as the world’s 16th most influential researcher in Architecture in 1996–2018 by PLOS. Her widely read books Remaking Chinese Urban Form (2006, 2011) and Third World Modernism (2011) were also published by Routledge.
'The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History is an incisive guide to global architecture and design practices in the twentieth-first century. Duanfang Lu’s panoramic introduction provides a scaffolding for her collaborators’ essays on topics ranging from architectural production to theories and criticism, social uses of architecture, and significant but often-overlooked building types such as mass customized housing and hospitals. This book will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the world’s architecture of recent decades.' - Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
'Have you ever looked at recent architecture and wondered “What the heck were they thinking??” Well now you’ll know. These relatively short, punchy pieces by some of architecture’s most inventive international thinkers cover an astonishing range of influences on architecture since World War II, many that never should have been forgotten.' - Dana Buntrock, University of California, Berkeley
'With its valuable breadth of scholarly voices, The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers an authoritative and much-needed historiography; a map to orient readers within the rapidly expanding array of approaches and archives in architectural history. As a deceptively young field of inquiry, architectural history will be well-served by this comprehensive accounting of established, emerging, and speculative perspectives that promise an exciting future for the field.' - Timothy W. Hyde, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
