TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster, Hal 
TI  - The Art-Architecture Complex
SN  - 9781781681046
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Art
KW  - City planning
KW  - Landscape art
N1  - Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and delusions of modernity. Foster demonstrates that a study of the “art-architecture complex” provides invaluable insight into broader social and economic trajectories in urgent need of analysis
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