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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George BairdPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.984kg ISBN: 9780262523431ISBN 10: 0262523434 Pages: 409 Publication Date: 28 February 2003 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of Contents"Life as a work of art; early struggles in the phenomenology of modernism; ""the labour of our body and the work of our hands""; instruments and monuments; panopticism; organicist yearnings and their consequences; architecture and politics; ""the space of appearance""."ReviewsA well-crafted, Hegelian fugue connecting three crucial epochs in modern architecture where the architectural is immersed in the political. -- Robert-Jan van Pelt, Canadian Architect Baird's argument is compelling. Perhaps a harbinger of things to come, it removes us from the irony and pessimism of postmodernism and reevalutes the hope and social commitment that the modernists never abandoned. Out of the depths of a very silent landscape, Baird rallies us to the call! --M. Christine Boyer, Professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University Author InformationGeorge Baird is Partner in Baird/Sampson Architects in Toronto and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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