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
Whitney Library of Design, c1993
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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