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Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262082640
  • 9780262082648
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 724.6
LOC classification:
  • NA680. H42 1999
Contents:
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.
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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.

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