Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde

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InArchitecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s, social unrest and cultural disruption opened the way for investigations into an inventive, anti-authoritarian architecture. Explorations emerged in the 1970s, and built projects surfaced in the 1980s, taking digital form in the 1990s, with large-scale projects finally landing on the far side of the millennium.

Architecture Unboundtraces all of these developments and influences, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history not only of the sources of contemporary currents in architecture but also of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the twenty-first-century digital revolution in form-making, and profiling the most influential practitioners and their most notable projects, including Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Zaha Hadids Guangzhou Opera House, Daniel Libeskinds master plan for the World Trade Center, Rem Koolhaass CCTV Tower, and Herzog and de Meurons Birds Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing.

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"Joseph Giovannini examines 20th-century trends decade by decade and analyzes the work of Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog and de Meuron, and other leading architects to argue that progressive European art movements around World War I led to the styles of todays buildings. Giovanninis critical eye also considers the 21st-century digital revolution in architectural form-making in this expansive book."ALTA MAGAZINE

"In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini takes us to architecture's wilder shores as he traces a century of the avant-garde to transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after World War I, and to the social unrest and cultural disruption of the 1960sArchitecture Unbound tracks complex historical developments and conceptual influences across the century, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history of the twentieth-century avant-garde and its evolution into digital form-making in the twenty-first century."AMAZING ARCHITECTURE

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Joseph Giovanniniis a practicing architect who has written on architecture and design for three decades for such publications as theNew York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, andArt Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic forNew Yorkmagazine and theLos Angeles Herald Examiner.