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Claes Oldenburg's commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg's profound responses to shifting urban conditions in America, framing his foundational and enduring relationship with the city as a critical perspective, his art as urban theory. Smith argues that Oldenburg adapted lessons of context, gleaned from New York's changing cityscape in the late 1950s, to large-scale objects and architectural plans. Oldenburg fuses a critique of modern architecture with an expansive understanding of embodied vision in compositions that juxtapose popular images from the media and lived experiences in contemporary environments. Smith examines disparate projects from New York to Los Angeles, situating Oldenburg's innovations in local geographies and national debates about art and architecture. In doing so, she illuminates patterns of urbanization through the important interventions of one of the leading artists in the United States.

Théorie de l'urbanisme

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Théorie de l'urbanisme --- City Planning

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Sociologie urbaine --- Théorie de l'urbanisme --- City planning --- United States

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This commentated anthology contains essential passages from eight important architecture and urban design theory texts from the 1960s to the 2010s. With these excerpts, the editors discursively outline the concept of form as a relational field of tension between man and material. The relational element is treated not only as a topos, but above all the interpretational perspective of architectural theory. The texts are arranged under the guiding themes of Type, Process, Place, and Things. The texts themselves were written by authors including Christopher Alexander, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Fumihiko Maki, Alison and Peter Smithson, Lucius Burckhardt, Bruno Latour, and Manuel de Sola-Morales. They offer a paradigmatic foundation that encourages further research and the continued view through the relational lens.

711.4 --- Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Théorie de l'urbanisme --- Morphologie urbaine

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Histoire de l'urbanisme --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Théorie de l'urbanisme --- Théorie de l'architecture