Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market Fontenot Anthony
Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period,…
Specifikacia Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market Fontenot Anthony
Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, illuminating the unexpected philosophical common ground between enemies of state support, most prominently the economist Friedrich Hayek, and numerous notable postwar architects and urbanists like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Reyner Banham, and Jane Jacobs. These urbanists espoused a new idea of "non-design"--characterized by a rejection of design and an embrace of various phenomena that emerge without intention or deliberate human design. This diffuse and complex body of design theories discarded many of the cultural presuppositions of central design associated with "high" architecture and planning of their time, casting off socialist goals and instead aspiring to let capitalism teach