The liberal monument : urban design and the late modern project /

Hooghe, Alexander d', 1973-

The liberal monument : urban design and the late modern project / Urban design and the late modern project Alexander D'Hooghe. - First edition. - 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? -- The conversation (that never took place).

1568988249 9781568988245

2010009122


City planning--Political aspects
Architecture and society--History--20th century.

HT166 / .H662 2010

307.1216

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