Radical Pedagogies


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Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture as much as they challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice. Although many of the experimental programs were subsequently abandoned, terminated, or assimilated, they nevertheless helped shape and in some sense define architectural discourse and practice. This book explores and documents these radical pedagogies and efforts to defy architecture’s status quo. The experiments include the adaptation of Bauhaus pedagogy as a means of “unlearning” under the conditions of decolonization in Africa; a movement to design for “every body,” including the disabled, by architecture students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley; the founding of a support network for women interested in the built environment, regardless of their academic backgrounds; and a design studio in the USSR that offered an alternative to the widespread functionalist approach in Soviet design. Viewed through their dissolution and afterlife as well as through their founding stories, these projects from the last century raise provocative questions about architecture’s role in the new century.




Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals


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1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.







Construction Review


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Développement culturel


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World Guide to Scientific Associations and Learned Societies


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Previous editions are cited in Books for College Libraries, 3rd ed.. This guide contains descriptions of about 17,500 associations and societies from the fields of science, culture and technology. Arrangement is alphabetically by name within an alphabetical listing of countries. Indexing is by association names, persons, and subjects. Each entry gives the association name (where applicable: extension to name, abbreviation, name in English, former name), contact information, homepage, year of foundation, number of members, names of officials, details of periodical publications, and whether or not a library and/or archives exists. New information includes details on aims and activities, awards, grants, and events. Distributed by Gale. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.







RIBA Journal


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