{"product_id":"institution-architecture-building-the-avant-garde","title":"Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstitution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde\u003c\/em\u003e takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sources consist of 825 well-known, globally influential European, including Russian, architectural literatures of the extended 1920s, and of Anglo-Saxon literatures of the extended 1960s to the 2010s. The book traces the connotations that the term ‘avant-garde’ acquired in them and shows the different notions under the ‘avant-garde’ signifier, directing attention to the term’s early twentieth-century roots and modes; its 1960s rising usage, modes, and function; and its post–1960s to 2010s developments. It sheds light on the sociological topography of the avant-garde, and through the writings, on the ways in which the term and avant-gardism connected, the actors, agencies, and mediators therein, on the terms’ techniques and modes, indicating the reasons for its heretofore limited systematic inquiry. The book aims at unravelling a century-old ‘avant-garde’ mystic function for unlocking horizontal, plural, and transparent conversations about interdisciplinary futures of architecture, cross-disciplinary dialogues, and liberatory dynamics. The book will therefore be relevant to scholars and researchers interested in the avant-garde in architecture, and the avant-garde as a transdisciplinary subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260796195160,"sku":"9781032191270","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032191270_8f9f8173-a61d-415f-84ab-40c42ad4b591.jpg?v=1779182126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/institution-architecture-building-the-avant-garde","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}