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Non-design : architecture, liberalism, and the market /

In his inventive manuscript, Anthony Fontenot reveals the affinities between Friedrich Hayek's libertarian conception of state power and the aesthetic deregulation sought by "non-design" architects and urbanists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Reyner Banham, Robert Venturi, Denise Scot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fontenot, Anthony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture > United States > History > 20th century.
City planning > History > 20th century.
Design > Philosophy.
Liberalism.
Libertarianism.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Planned order versus spontaneous order
  • New brutalism and the critique of socialism : non-design and the new visual order
  • The borax debates : from modern design to non-design
  • Spontaneous city : Jane Jacobs and the critique of planned order
  • Chaos or control : non-design and the American city
  • The indeterminate city
  • Conclusion.