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.
1. Architecture in the Age of Playfulness: Mapping a Framework for
Global Historiography I. Practices: Histories
2. What is Modern Architecture?
3. Architecture and Image
4. Cold War Modernism
5. Deconstructivist
Architecture
6. Postmodern Utopianism
7. Metabolism and Beyond
8.
Professional Agency and Architectural Discourse in Postcolonial India
9.
Architectural Production in Dubai
10. The Afterlives of Modernist Housing
11.
Social-Interest Architecture in Brazil: The Seed of Something New II.
Interrogations: Introduction
12. Autonomy, Criticality, and the Avant-Garde
13. Crafting Architectural Criticism
14. Domesticity, Gender, and
Architecture
15. Architecture and Preemptive Spectacles
16. Architecture and
Phenomenology
17. Critical Regionalism: From Critical Theory to Postcolonial
and Local Awareness
18. Vernacular Architecture
19. Heritage Conservation:
The Rise and Fall of a "Grand Narrative"
20. Power, Empire, and Nation
21.
Architecture and Globalization III. Innovations: Introduction
22.
Architectural and Medical Innovation in Hospital Design
23. Electric City
Land: Architecture and Media
24. Divergent Matter: The Problematic Search for
Material Suitability in Architecture
25. Building Mass Customized Housing
through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan
26. The
Programmable Architect
27. Biomimicry for Sustainable and Regenerative
Architecture
28. Design for Ageing Buildings: An Applied Research of
Poikilohydric Living Walls
29. Nature, Infrastructure, and Cities
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 worlds 16th most influential researcher in Architecture in 19962018 by PLOS. Her widely read books Remaking Chinese Urban Form (2006, 2011) and Third World Modernism (2011) were also published by Routledge.
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