Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262082640
- 9780262082648
- 724.6
- NA680. H42 1999
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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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