Gartman, David, 1950-

From autos to architecture : Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century / Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century David Gartman. - 1st ed. - New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009. - 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

9781568988139 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1568988133 (hbk. : alk. paper)


Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Architecture and society--History--20th century.

724.7 / GAR 2009