Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the Late C20th

ISBN-13: 9781138616646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Alexander Tzonis; Liane Lefaivre

Opis

This book is about the years that followed the end of WWII during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a Third Ecology emerged. 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.

O autorze

Alexander Tzonis is professor emeritus at the University of Technology Delft. He was educated at Yale University and taught at Harvard University between 1967 and 1981, at the College de France and Tsinghua University. Among his publications, The Shape of Community (Penguin, 1972) with Serge Chermayeff, Towards a Non-oppressive Environment, (1972).

Liane Lefaivre is Professor Ordinaria (retired) at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. Among her books are　Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili　(MIT Press, 1996)　and　The Child, the City and Power of Play (Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2010).

Among the books Lefaivre and Tzonis authored together are Classical Architecture (1986), Emergence of Modern Architecture (Routledge 2004), and Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World, (Routledge, 2011).