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Chasing After Utopia's Ghost
Chasing After Utopia's Ghost
A new exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture considers whether the utopian ideals of early modernism continued to haunt the architectural designs of the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
Source: ARCHITECT Magazine
Publication date: March 18, 2008
By Giancarlo La Giorgia
According to its detractors, the utopian ideals of modern architecturewhether those of social engineering or the "perfection" of form through stark functionalismwere pronounced dead at the scene of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex demolition in St. Louis in 1972. Out of its rubble, a neo-eclectic, humanistic style dubbed Postmodernism emerged, supposedly purging utopianism from the architectural lexicon and birthing the form anew.
That notion is being challenged by "Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered," an exhibit on display through May 25 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal. The exhibit grew out two seminars by Columbia University architecture professor Reinhold Martin exploring the premise that utopianism is not dead. Or alive, for that matter....
Find this article: http://www.architectmagazine.com:80/industry-news.asp?articleID=674663§ionID=1012
A new exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture considers whether the utopian ideals of early modernism continued to haunt the architectural designs of the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
Source: ARCHITECT Magazine
Publication date: March 18, 2008
By Giancarlo La Giorgia
According to its detractors, the utopian ideals of modern architecturewhether those of social engineering or the "perfection" of form through stark functionalismwere pronounced dead at the scene of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex demolition in St. Louis in 1972. Out of its rubble, a neo-eclectic, humanistic style dubbed Postmodernism emerged, supposedly purging utopianism from the architectural lexicon and birthing the form anew.
That notion is being challenged by "Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered," an exhibit on display through May 25 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal. The exhibit grew out two seminars by Columbia University architecture professor Reinhold Martin exploring the premise that utopianism is not dead. Or alive, for that matter....
Find this article: http://www.architectmagazine.com:80/industry-news.asp?articleID=674663§ionID=1012
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