A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the "Techno-Social" Moment

Arindam Dutta

• Other Authors Stephanie Marie Tuerk (Editor), Michael Kubo (Editor), Jennifer Yeesue Chuong (Editor), Irina Chernyakova (Contributor)
• Title

  A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the "Techno-Social" Moment

• Date 2013
• ISBN 9780262019859
• Publisher Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/SA+P Press, Department of Architure
• Description 928 p; 7 x 10 in; 81 color ill, 286 b&w ill
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture—an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, “to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise.” Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the “techno-social” turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. (MIT Press)

• Tags Architecture, Modernism, Social history, Technology