From autos to architecture : Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century /

From autos to architecture : Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gartman, David, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture and society > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The problematic aesthetics of Fordism
  • Modernism and the Model T : the misplaced development of the machine aesthetic
  • Displaced dreams of wholeness : the Depression-era retreat of modernism
  • Efficiency and fantasy : the bifurcated architecture of postwar technocracy
  • Revolt against the machine : the 1960s and the death of modernism
  • Disney goes downtown : post-Fordism, postmodernism, and the collapse of spatial segregation
  • Index.