Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen's Chicago

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-02
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 344
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547414
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547413
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A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.

An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of "conspicuous consumption," the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status--a term he coined in his 1899 classic The Theory of the Leisure Class. In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a wide range of arguments about modern architecture, but never has he attracted a comprehensive and critical treatment from the viewpoint of architectural history. In Barbarian Architecture, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury corrects this omission by reexamining Veblen's famous book as an original theory of modernity and situating it in a particular place and time--Chicago in the 1890s.

Merwood-Salisbury takes her title from Veblen's use of the term "barbarian," which refers to his belief that Gilded Age American society was a last remnant of a barbarian state of greed and acquisitiveness. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws on biography, intellectual history, and historiography, she explores Veblen's position in relation to debates about industrial reform and aesthetics in Chicago during the period 1890-1906. Bolstered by a strong visual narrative made possible by several of Chicago's historic photographic collections, Barbarian Architecture makes a compelling and original argument for the influence of Veblen's home city on his work and ideas.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本豐富視覺的現代建築史和理論,透過對1890年代芝加哥的重新檢視,重新詮釋了索斯坦·韋布倫(Thorstein Veblen)的經典著作《閒暇階級理論》。

作為現代文化的重要評論家,美國經濟學家索斯坦·韋布倫以「炫耀性消費」的概念而聞名,這是指為了社會地位而炫耀和浪費地展示商品的行為,這個詞是他在他1899年的經典著作《閒暇階級理論》中創造的。在建築史領域,學者們一直在支持各種有關現代建築的論點時引用韋布倫的理論,但他從建築史的角度從未受到全面和批判性的研究。在《野蠻建築》中,喬安娜·默伍德-索爾茲伯里(Joanna Merwood-Salisbury)通過重新檢視韋布倫的著名著作,將其視為現代性的原創理論,並將其置於特定的地點和時間-1890年代的芝加哥。

默伍德-索爾茲伯里以韋布倫對「野蠻」一詞的使用為標題,這一詞指的是他認為鎮金時代的美國社會是貪婪和追求物質的野蠻狀態的最後遺跡。她採用跨學科的方法,結合傳記、思想史和史學研究,探討韋布倫在1890-1906年期間芝加哥的工業改革和美學辯論中的立場。《野蠻建築》借助芝加哥幾個歷史攝影收藏的強大視覺敘事,提出了一個引人入勝且獨特的觀點,闡述了韋布倫的家鄉對他的工作和思想的影響。

作者簡介

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is Professor of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has held academic positions at Parsons School of Design, Bard College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include Design for the Crowd, After Taste, coedited with Kent Kleinman and Lois Weinthal, and Chicago 1890.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury是紐西蘭維多利亞大學的建築學教授。她曾在帕森設計學院、巴德學院和芝加哥伊利諾伊大學擔任學術職位。她的著作包括與Kent Kleinman和Lois Weinthal合編的《為人群設計》、《餘味》以及《芝加哥1890年》。