Defying the Avant-Garde Logic: Architecture, Populism, and Mass Culture

Tahl Kaminer, Dirk van den Heuvel

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As an introduction to this issue of Footprint, which is dedicated to questions pertaining to the role, perception and valuation of mass culture and populism within the twentieth century, avant-garde discourse, this text presents a tentative framework that contextualizes and elaborates the questions at hand. It argues that the specific negotiation in the late twentieth century between the architecture discipline and the phenomenon of the consumer society, and especially mass media technologies, introduced a new, hybrid, and at times contradictory disciplinary discourse and practice, which defies the historic avant-garde logic as described by Peter Bürger. The editors argue that the re-investigations of the late twentieth century avant-garde vis-à-vis mass culture lead to a better understanding of the challenges contemporary architecture faces.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-5
Number of pages5
JournalFootprint
VolumeSpring 2011
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2011

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Architecture
  • avant-garde
  • populism

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    Tahl Kaminer (Editor)

    15 Apr 2011

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