The Art-Architecture Complex

About this book

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 architectureas practiced by Norman Foster Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianoanalogous to the international style of Le Corbusier Gropius and Mies. More than any art todays 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.