Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer /

Hays, K. Michael,

Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer / K. Michael Hays. - 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-329) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Hannes Meyer and the Radicalization of Perception -- Co-Op Vitrine and the Representation of Mass Production -- Contra the Bourgeois Interior: Co-Op Zimmer -- Co-Op Building Between Avant Garde and Instrumentalization: The Petersschule -- The Bauhaus and the Radicalization of Building -- Reproduction and Negation: The Cognitive Project of Neue Sachlichkeit -- Ludwig Hilberseimer and the Inscription of the Paranoid Subject -- The Crisis of Humanism, the Dissolution of the Object -- Hope beyond Chaos: Expressionism and Dadaism -- Groszstadtarchitektur and Weimar-stimmung: The Construction of the Paranoid Subject -- Conclusion: Posthumanism and Postmodernism -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

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Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954 --Criticism and interpretation.
Hilberseimer, Ludwig--Criticism and interpretation.


Functionalism (Architecture)--Germany

NA1353.M4 / H39 1992

720.922

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