A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Moment Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Moment Book

A Second Modernism After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture -- an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, "to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise." Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the "techno-social" turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. In essays and interviews, prominent architectural historians and e...Read More

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