Perspecta 45: Agency

A handbook of best practices, strategies, and speculation for architecture's future.

Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic contexts; major events in world history have had correspondingly dramatic effects on the discipline. The Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Katrina, for example, were all catalysts for architectural response and resulted in a diversification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517884
• ISBN13: 9780262517881
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher