Making Dystopia The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism 1st Edition by James Stevens Curl ISBN 0191068160 9780191068164

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ISBN 10:  0191068160 
ISBN 13: 9780191068164
Author: James Stevens Curl

In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called ‘iconic’ architecture by supposed ‘star’ architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the ‘haves’ have more and more, and the ‘have-nots’ are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.

Making Dystopia The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism 1st Table of contents:

I. Origins of a Catastrophe

Introduction: A Few Definitions

The Modern Movement

A Strange Aberration

Pugin, the Ruskin Problem, Perils of Uncritical Acceptance, & Some Perceptive Critics

Hermann Muthesius

Harry Kessler, van de Velde, & Weimar

 The Deutscher Werkbund

The Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914

Epilogue

II. Makers of Mythologies & False Analogies

Introduction

Voysey as a Pevsnerian ‘Pioneer’

Further Objections to the Pevsnerian Position

Baillie Scott

The Religious Factor

Unfortunate Treatment of Berlage, Comper, & Dykes Bower

III. Modernism in Germany in the aftermath of the 1914–18 War

Introduction: Expressionist Interlude

The Bauhaus at Weimar

The Bauhaus at Dessau

A Department of Architecture at Dessau

Epilogue

IV. The International Style 1920s & 1930s

Introduction: The Transformation of Ludwig Mies

The Weißenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart

 The Strange Case of Erich Mendelsohn

Later History of the Bauhaus at Dessau & Berlin

Epilogue

V. The International Style Truly International

Impresarios of the International Style

The Style Becomes Widely Accepted Outside Germany

France & ‘Le Corbusier’

Fascist Italy & The International Style: A Problem for Apologists

Early Modernism in England

VI. Universal Acceptance of the International Style: A Surprising Aftermath of 1945

The Style Established

Not All Were Convinced

The Situation from 1945

A Curious Shift

Transformation & Acceptance

VII. Descent to Deformity

Revolution in Architecture & Planning

Destructive & Unwholesome Events in Britain from 1945

Philip Johnson: ‘Sourcerer’ & Tastemaker

VIII. Dangerous Signals

Alleged Demise of Modern Architecture

Imposition, Packaging, Deformation, & Rejection

Deconstructivism & After

Cults, Compounds, & the Grand Narrative

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