{"product_id":"the-artarchitecture-complex-isbn-9781781681046","title":"The Art-Architecture Complex","description":"Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the “art-architecture complex” provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis. “A worldview expansive enough to see dominant tendencies in contemporary architecture and (fairly) recent art as flipsides of the same coin … criticism with vaulting ambitions.” \u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I find it refreshing to encounter a degree of intellectual rigour you don’t find too often on my side of the fence.” \u003cb\u003eRowan Moore, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brimming with ideas and analysis.” \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Prepares the ground for a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the contemporary links between artistic and architectural practice.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Walker\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely tome with an urgent message.” \u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Foster is terrific at unearthing the unintended consequences of our consumer-oriented culture on architectural\/artistic ideas, in particular on those architects who imagine their work as critiques of consumerism.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJM Cava, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eArcade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Art-Architecture Complex \u003c\/i\u003eis a persistently insightful, elliptical account of an ambiguous symbiosis.” \u003cb\u003eOwen Hatherley, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a number of books, he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the author of \u003ci\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRecording\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCompulsive Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304724254949,"sku":"NP9781781681046","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681046.jpg?v=1767738134","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-artarchitecture-complex-isbn-9781781681046","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}