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From autos to architecture : Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century / David Gartman.

By: Gartman, David, 1950-.
Publisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781568988139 (hbk. : alk. paper); 1568988133 (hbk. : alk. paper).Other title: Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century.Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- 20th century | Architecture and society -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 724.7
Contents:
Introduction: The problematic aesthetics of Fordism -- Modernism and the Model T : the misplaced development of the machine aesthetic -- Displaced dreams of wholeness : the Depression-era retreat of modernism -- Efficiency and fantasy : the bifurcated architecture of postwar technocracy -- Revolt against the machine : the 1960s and the death of modernism -- Disney goes downtown : post-Fordism, postmodernism, and the collapse of spatial segregation.
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Includes index.

Introduction: The problematic aesthetics of Fordism -- Modernism and the Model T : the misplaced development of the machine aesthetic -- Displaced dreams of wholeness : the Depression-era retreat of modernism -- Efficiency and fantasy : the bifurcated architecture of postwar technocracy -- Revolt against the machine : the 1960s and the death of modernism -- Disney goes downtown : post-Fordism, postmodernism, and the collapse of spatial segregation.