Tower and office

Description:

"In Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization."--Jacket.

subjects: History,  Criticism and interpretation,  Skyscrapers,  Architecture and technology,  Impact of science & technology on society,  Theory of architecture,  20th Century Architecture,  Technological Innovations,  Architecture,  History - Specific Styles,  Architecture / Criticism,  Le Corbusier,  General,  Nanotechnology,  1887-1965,  20th century,  Le Corbusier,,  United States

People: Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century