Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th - Alexander Tzonis - Libros - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781472476449 - 14 de diciembre de 2016
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Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a ?Third Ecology? emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, ?star? buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a ?desert flatland?, environmental inequality and unhappiness.

This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the present, are significant as documents that inform about the period. They are also important and timely because of their critical and influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and destructive.


336 pages, 48 black & white halftones

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 14 de diciembre de 2016
ISBN13 9781472476449
Editores Taylor & Francis Ltd
Páginas 304
Dimensiones 181 × 254 × 21 mm   ·   810 g
Lengua Inglés  

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