From autos to architecture
Subtitle: Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century
By: David Gartman.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568988139
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century; Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Introduction. The problematic aesthetics of Fordism; title: 2. Modernism and the Model T : the misplaced development of the machine aesthetic; title: 3. Displaced dreams of wholeness : the Depression-era retreat of modernism; title: 4. Efficiency and fantasy : the bifurcated architecture of postwar technocracy; title: 5. Revolt against the machine : the sixties and the death of modernism; title: 6. Disney goes downtown : post-Fordism, postmodernism, and the collapse of spatial segregation; title: Index.