Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde
A Sociological Approach
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 8 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032191270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white; 8 Tables, black & white 700
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Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it.
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Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it.
The sources consist of 825 well-known, globally influential European, including Russian, architectural literatures of the extended 1920s, and of Anglo-Saxon literatures of the extended 1960s to the 2010s. The book traces the denotations that the term ‘avant-garde’ acquires in them and shows the different notions under the ‘avant-garde’ signifier, directing attention to the term’s early twentieth-century roots and modes, its 1960s rising usage, modes and function, and its post-1960s to 2010s developments. It sheds light on the sociological topography of the avant-garde, and through the writings, on the ways in which the term and avant-gardism connect, the actors, agencies and mediators therein, on the terms’ techniques and modes, indicating the reasons for its heretofore limited systematic inquiry. This book aims at unravelling a century-old ‘avant-garde’ mystic function for unlocking horizontal, plural, and transparent conversations about intra- and inter-disciplinary futures including architecture. This close terminological interrogation could open up inter-terminological, horizontal, transnational, intersubjective discourses of values and liberatory dynamics in cross-disciplinary dialogues. The book will therefore be relevant to scholars and researchers interested in the avant-garde in architecture.
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: ‘Avant-Garde’ Coloniality of Value
Chapter One: Institution Arts, 1960s and after: ‘Avant-Garde’ Origins Mediation, Agency
Chapter Two: Institution Architecture, 1920s: Avant-gardism - ‘Avant-Garde’ -Vanguard
Chapter Three: Institution Architecture, 1960s: ‘Avant-Garde’ Roots and Function
Chapter Four: 1960s-70s ‘Avant-Garde’ Architecture
Chapter Five: 1960s-80s Avant-gardism
Chapter Six: Strategy ‘Avant-Garde’ Avant-gardism. Two Cases 1960s-1980s
Chapter Seven: ‘Russian Avant-Garde’
Chapter Eight: Avant-Garde Semiotic Domain: Subcategories. Unprofessionalisation
Appendix
Primary and Main Sources
Bibliography and Reference List
Index
