Architecture and modernity : a critique /
Heynen, Hilde,
Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen. - 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Architecture Facing of Modernity -- Concepts of Modernity -- Dwelling Fades into the Distance -- The Dilemmas of Architecture -- Constructing the Modern Movement -- An Architectural Avant-Garde? -- Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity -- Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture -- Reflections in a Mirror -- The Experience of Rupture -- Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition -- Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society -- Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture -- The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought -- Architecture as Critique of Modernity -- Avant-Garde versus Modernism -- New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia -- No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory -- Mimesis in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture -- Notes -- Index.
0262082640 9780262082648
98038512
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--Influence.--20th century
NA680. / H42 1999
724.6
Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen. - 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Architecture Facing of Modernity -- Concepts of Modernity -- Dwelling Fades into the Distance -- The Dilemmas of Architecture -- Constructing the Modern Movement -- An Architectural Avant-Garde? -- Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity -- Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture -- Reflections in a Mirror -- The Experience of Rupture -- Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition -- Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society -- Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture -- The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought -- Architecture as Critique of Modernity -- Avant-Garde versus Modernism -- New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia -- No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory -- Mimesis in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture -- Notes -- Index.
0262082640 9780262082648
98038512
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--Influence.--20th century
NA680. / H42 1999
724.6