Author(s): Andrew Santa Lucia
Optimism has profoundly shaped architecture’sengagement with and organization of the world.Oscillating from the Critical (modern volume) throughthe Cruel (postmodern communication), StrangeOptimism offers the discipline both complexity andcorroboration. However, optimism is a contentiousterm associated with modern concepts of hope,utopia, and instrumentality. This essay posits formatsof architectural optimism during modernism and postmodernism,as well as develops a theory of optimismusing theories of trangeness.
Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne
ISBN
978-1-944214-08-1