The Edge of the millennium : an international critique of architecture, urban planning, product and communication design

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The Edge of the millennium : an international critique of architecture, urban planning, product and communication design

edited by Susan Yelavic

Whitney Library of Design, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In January 1992, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum hosted a four-day symposium entitled "The Edge of the Millennium." This event brought together architects, planners, and designers under one theme. Thirty-six speakers participated in an interdisciplinary debate that focused on critical issues of immense relevance to all the design professions. The four day symposium elicited dramatic pronouncements and provocative calls for action from the participants. Of the thirty-six essays presented at the symposium, thirty have been editorially selected and illustrated to be included in the book. The contributors rank among the most respected scholars and practitioners in the international design community, including Alan Balfour, director of the Architectural Association; Rosemarie Haag Bletter, architectural historian and author; Andrea Branzi, vice-president and founder of the Domus Academy in Milan; Peter Cook, architect, London; Alan Plattus, associate dean at Yale School of Architecture; Michael Sorkin, architectural critic and author; and John Hejduk, dean of The Cooper Union.

Table of Contents

  • Setting the stage for the third millennium, Susan Yelavich,(Cooper-Hewitt Museum)
  • living in a millenarian culture, Michael Barkun (Syracuse University)
  • the end, Karrie Jacobs and Tibor Kalman
  • city - spirit and form, Susan Yelavich
  • waiting for utopia, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, (City University of NY)
  • spiritual constructions, Alan Balfour (Architectural Association, London)
  • 125th Street - refiguring the feminine in the city, Peg Elizabeth Birmingham (Pace University)
  • night thoughts on Bronx trolleys, John Hejduk, (Dean Cooper Union)
  • at the edge of the urban millennium, Alan Plattus (Yale University)
  • London beyond the millennium, Peter Cook and Christine Hawley
  • Tokyo - real and imagined, Marc Treib (UC Berkerley)
  • Mexico City, three foundations, a postmodern city, Eduardo Terrazas
  • product and the new technological juggernaut, Susan Yelavich
  • design and the second modernity, Andrea Branzi (Domus Academy, Milan)
  • gods too ancient and contradictory, Michael McDonough
  • design and the new mythology, Michael McCoy (Cranbook Academy of Art)
  • response to myth, Hugh Aldersey-Williams
  • momentum, Bruce Sterling and Tucker Viemeister
  • objects and their transcendence, John Rheinfrank
  • rethinking the border in design, John Seely Brown (Xerox Corporation)
  • communication - new translations, Susan Yelavich
  • graphic design - lost and found, Lorraine Wild
  • Russia now: survival of design or design for survival?, Constantine Boyme
  • West eats East, the biggest takeover bid in German history, Erik Spiekerman
  • critical way finding, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
  • virtual reality the world, Michael Sorkin
  • afterword - sonnets to Orpheus, #24, Rainer Maria Rilke.

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