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Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde. A Sociological Approach is an original study of the historical trajectory of the word ‘avant-garde’ in the language of architecture.
It traces this key word in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it. By a close re-reading of 825 book and article titles, and journal issues that have been influential European, including Russian literatures of the extended 1920s and Anglo-Saxon literatures of the 1960s to the 2010s, and by developing a terminological analysis with a semiological and a Bourdieuean sociological approach, also informed by the sociology of the professions, this book explores the developmental path of the term ‘avant-garde.’ It identifies its origins, flotation routes, and entanglements in the fields it entered. Becoming a word of the architectural vocabulary, it traces the way in which it entered this field, the connotations that the ‘avant-garde’ acquired, its modes and functions, and sheds light to the nodal points of the latent discursive category it created and its sociological topography.
This book will be relevant to scholars and researchers interested in the avant-garde in architecture, and the avant-garde as a transdisciplinary subject.
Open Access to frontmatter, Table of Contents, and Introduction is offered at Taylor&Francis (tap on the ‘preview pdf’ box for downloading them as one pdf)
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Lina Stergiou, Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde. A Sociological Approach (London: Routledge, 2025)
Available from: Routledge. Also from Amazon CA, AU, USA, UK, IE, NL, DE, SE, PL, IN, AE, SG, JP, BR, MX as Hardcover and Kindle. As Hardcover, pdf and ePub from kulturkaufhaus.de, doppelpunkt.ch, buchhaus.ch, lehmanns.de, bücher.de or orellfüssli.ch
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde. A Sociological Approach is an original study of the historical trajectory of the word ‘avant-garde’ in the language of architecture.
It traces this key word in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it. By a close re-reading of 825 book and article titles, and journal issues that have been influential European, including Russian literatures of the extended 1920s and Anglo-Saxon literatures of the 1960s to the 2010s, and by developing a terminological analysis with a semiological and a Bourdieuean sociological approach, also informed by the sociology of the professions, this book explores the developmental path of the term ‘avant-garde.’ It identifies its origins, flotation routes, and entanglements in the fields it entered. Becoming a word of the architectural vocabulary, it traces the way in which it entered this field, the connotations that the ‘avant-garde’ acquired, its modes and functions, and sheds light to the nodal points of the latent discursive category it created and its sociological topography.
This book will be relevant to scholars and researchers interested in the avant-garde in architecture, and the avant-garde as a transdisciplinary subject.
Open Access to frontmatter, Table of Contents, and Introduction is offered at Taylor&Francis (tap on the ‘preview pdf’ box for downloading them as one pdf)