Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / Henrik Reeh.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Danish Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 248 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262182378
- 9780262182379
- 0262681633
- 9780262681636
- Storbyens ornamenter. English
- 720.1030904 22
- NA9052 .R44 2004
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720.103 WEI Discrimination by design : a feminist critique of the man-made environment / | 720.103 WOO War and architecture = Rat i arhitektura / | 720.1030904 ARC Architecture, criticism, ideology / | 720.1030904 REE Ornaments of the metropolis : Siegfried Kracauer and modern urban culture / | 720.10309048 TSC Architecture and disjunction / | 720.103094 LAN Landschap en massatoerisme = Landscape and mass tourism / | 720.10309421 REN The pursuit of pleasure : gender, space and architecture in Regency London / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-242) and index.
Ch. 1. The resubjectivization of modern urban culture -- Ch. 2. The everyday life and urban perception of the architect -- Ch. 3. Beyond functional space : the ornament -- Ch. 4. Discovering the city as a reflective space -- Ch. 5. Ornament, ratio, and reason -- Ch. 6. Urban ornaments and subjective experience -- Ch. 7. Space analysis and social critique -- Ch. 8. Improvisation and memory -- Ch. 9. History and urban collectivity.
"For Siegfried Kracauer the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design, it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his "sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Reeh argues that Kracauer's novel, essays, and historiography all suggest ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life. The book also includes a series of photographs by the author that reflect the ornamental experience of the metropolis in Paris, Frankfurt, and other cities."--BOOK JACKET.
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