MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND CITY: A Quick Immersion (Quick Immersions)

This book traces the different histories in modern architecture in order to define the founding period of the masters and the avant-garde and to understand the spread of the Modern Movement, with all its critiques and contradictions. Without using specialized language, a second block lets us talk about current architecture and confront the problems of the contemporary city. With this in mind, five questions are posed on the current role of architecture, and then ten different “project strategies” are discussed. Finally, in a period of intense digital mutation, the challenges that architecture can resolve are considered in pursuit of a more sustainable society.

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Most of us and most of the world´s population live in cities. Therefore, to understand our built environment, concentrating on the period of Modern Architecture to the present, from the vantage of an outstanding urbanist creates a refreshing narrative that leads to a greater appreciation of how and why our cities are the way they are. Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design.