A second modernism : MIT, architecture, and the 'techno-social' moment /
Arindam Dutta, editor with Stephanie Marie Tuerk, Michael Kubo, Jennifer Yeesue Chuong, Irina Chernyakova.
- ix, 916 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture-defined by its wariness towards the indeteminacies of aesthetic formalism and aspiring instead to a hard "expertise" based on rule-based judgment and research protocols emphasizing verification by data.