{"product_id":"reimagining-the-avantgarde-9781119506850","title":"ReImagining the AvantGarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse, the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically  reaching from Europe to North America and Japan  and in its political, formal and cultural preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the looming ecological crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRe-imagining the Avant-garde\u003c\/i\u003eoutlines how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects retain their power as historic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnduring Experiments: How the Architectural Avant-Garde Lives On\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Superstudio as Super-Office: The Labour of Radical Design\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Function Follows Form: Some Affinities Between Pure Icons, Hardcore Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Avant-Garde in the Age of Identity: Alvin Boyarsky, the Architectural Association and the Impact of Pedagogy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 The Little Big Planet of Architectural Imagination: An Interview with NEMESTUDIO's Neyran Turan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Feedback Loops: Or, Past Futures Haunt Architecture's Present\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 ArChapterive of Affinities: Making Architecture from Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Avant-Garde Legacies: A Spirited Flâneur\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 System Cities: Building a ‘Quantitative Utopia’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 The Function of Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Feverish Delirium: Surrealism, Deconstruction and Numinous Presences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Behind the Wheel: Charles Darwin and Superstudio Do the Driving\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Play it Again: In Conversation with Architect Sam Jacob and Artist Pablo Bronstein\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Architecture Between the Panels: Comics, Cartoons and Graphic Narrative in the (New) Neo Avant-Garde\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Copying as Cultural Iconoclasm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Anticipating the Digital: The Game of Supersurface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Counterpoint – What Comes After the Avant-Garde?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407067816279,"sku":"9781119506850","price":29.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119506850.jpg?v=1730498062","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reimagining-the-avantgarde-9781119506850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}