{"product_id":"atrium-isbn-9780262048330","title":"Atrium","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the rise of the large-scale atrium space in the 1970s and ’80s changed the way buildings could be designed, constructed, regulated, and occupied.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this lively critique, Charles Rice charts the atrium’s appearance in the 1970s and its development through the 1980s, as it accompanied profound shifts in the discipline and practice of architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring this period, architectural practice especially in the United States and United Kingdom was changing rapidly, due in part to the manifold effects of deregulation. All aspects of the way buildings were designed, developed, regulated, built, managed, and occupied were being reshaped. A practice guided by the progressive tenets of modernism was being turned into a professional service fully integrated within neoliberal social and economic imperatives. As Rice shows, the atrium gives this story a distinct spatial and material figure, one that offers an inside view of architecture in transformation.List of Images vii\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Generic Building Form of the Late Twentieth Century 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Forming 15\u003cbr\u003e2 Regulating 35\u003cbr\u003e3 Conditioning 65\u003cbr\u003e4 Organizing 95\u003cbr\u003e5 Cultivating 125\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Atrium Persists 151\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 159\u003cbr\u003eNotes 161\u003cbr\u003eIndex 197“Despite being a brisk read, the volume Rice has produced fills the void, so to speak. \u003ci\u003eAtrium\u003c\/i\u003e brims with architectural episodes that deftly balance lofty ideas with technical, nitty-gritty nuance.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchitectural Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCharles Rice is Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. He is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterior Urbanism: Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301383327973,"sku":"NP9780262048330","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262048330.jpg?v=1767721927","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/atrium-isbn-9780262048330","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}