Re-imagining the avant-garde : revisiting the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s / guest-edited by Matthew Butcher and Luke Caspar Pearson.

• About the guest-editors Matthew Butcher and Luke Caspar Pearson -- Enduring experiments: how the architectural avant-garde lives on / Matthew Butcher and Luke Caspar Pearson -- Superstudio as super-office: the labour of radical design / William Menking -- Function follows form: some affinities between pure icons, hardcore architecture and OOO / Sara Deyong -- Avant-garde in the age of identity: Alvin Boyarsky, the Architectural Association and the impact of pegadogy / Igor Marjanović -- The little big planet of architectural imagination: an interview with NEMESTUDIO's Neyran Turan / Stylianos Giamarelos -- Feedback loops, or, Past futures, haunt architecture's present / Mimi Zeiger -- Archive of affinities: making architecture from architecture / Andrew Kovacs -- Avant-garde legacies: a spirited flâneur / Perry Kulper -- System cities: building a quantitative utopia / Luke Caspar Pearson -- The function of utopia / Jimenez Lai -- Feverish delirium: surrealism, deconstruction and numinous presences / Neil Spiller -- Behind the wheel: Charles Darwin and the Superstudio do the driving / Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen -- Play it again: in conversation with architect Sam Jacob and artist Pablo Bronstein / Matthew Butcher and Luke Caspar Pearson -- Architecture between the panels: comics, cartoons and graphic narrative in the (new) neo avant-garde / Luis Miguel Lus Arana -- Copying as cultural iconoclasm / Matthew Butcher -- Anticipating the digital: the game of Supersurface / Damjan Jovanovic -- What comes after the avant-garde? / Michael Sorkin.

• The 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. Re-imagining the Avant-Garde outlines how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects retain their power as historical precedents, as barometers of a particular design ethos, as critiques of society and instigators of new formal techniques. Given the far-reaching impact of the subsequent digital revolution, which has since reshaped every aspect of practice, the issue asks why this historical period continues to retain its undeniable grip on current architecture. 

Ämnesord

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  (LCSH)

Architecture, Modern  -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Architecture, Modern.  (fast)

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Personnamn

Boyarsky, Alvin.

Turan, Neyran.

Jacob, Sam, 1970-

Bronstein, Pablo, 1977-

Boyarsky, Alvin.

Bronstein, Pablo, 1977-

Klassifikation

NA1 (LCC)

724.6 (DDC)

Ic.5 (kssb/8 (machine generated))