UNIVERSAL VERSUS INDIVIDUAL THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1960’S. International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture

Author: Korvenmaa, Pekka, Esa Laaksonen eds.
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 151
Illustrations: 85 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9525371158
Biblio/Bio: Bios.
Code: 5508

Price: $69.50

This publication contains the keynote lectures delivered in Jyväskylä, Finland, on 8/30-9/1, 2002 at the Alvar Aalto International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, the theme of the conference was to bring together researchers and professionals in architecture to reflect upon and discuss the architecureal legacy of the 1960’s. The aim is to explore the material and intellectual realm of this turbulent decade so rich in universal, overriding concepts and unheeding individualism. Includes the following articles: Claes Caldenby: A twofold movement. Swedish architecture in the 1960s between production adapted building and the “haven of beauty”. Beatriz Colomina: Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture. Dennis P. Doordan: From the Cold War to Postmodernism: Arhitectural Criticism in the 1960s. Adrian Forty: The Sixties: Architecture’s Best Years ? Mart Kalm: Sauna-Party at the Summer Cottage: Soviet Estonians play at being Western. Marc Treib: Regional Modernism in Northern California.