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Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing architecturePublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262720515
  • 9780262720519
Other title:
  • Inventing architectural modernism
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 724.6 22
LOC classification:
  • NA682.M63 V53 2008
Contents:
Foreword: (BRACKET)ING History / Peter Eisenman -- Introduction -- 1. Neoclassical Modernism / Emil Kaufmann -- Autonomy -- Neoclassicism and Autonomy -- From Kant to Le Corbusier -- Structural Analysis -- From Kaufmann to Johnson and Rossi -- Autonomy Revived -- 2. Mannerist Modernism / Colin Rowe -- An English Palladio -- Modern Palladianism -- Diagramming Palladio -- Mathematics -- Inventing Modernism -- Mannerism -- The End of Modernism -- Modernist Mannerism: Stirling -- 3. Futurist Modernism / Reyner Banham -- Modern Picturesque -- Historicism versus Functionalism -- Functionalist Modernism -- Futurism Redux -- Theories and Design -- Program, Science, and History -- Beyond Architecture: Banham in LA -- 4. Renaissance Modernism / Manfredo Tafuri -- Architect and Historian -- Revising History -- The Eclipse and Rise of History -- Ideology and Utopia -- Anxiety -- Disenchantments -- 5. Postmodern Or Posthistoire?.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: (BRACKET)ING History / Peter Eisenman -- Introduction -- 1. Neoclassical Modernism / Emil Kaufmann -- Autonomy -- Neoclassicism and Autonomy -- From Kant to Le Corbusier -- Structural Analysis -- From Kaufmann to Johnson and Rossi -- Autonomy Revived -- 2. Mannerist Modernism / Colin Rowe -- An English Palladio -- Modern Palladianism -- Diagramming Palladio -- Mathematics -- Inventing Modernism -- Mannerism -- The End of Modernism -- Modernist Mannerism: Stirling -- 3. Futurist Modernism / Reyner Banham -- Modern Picturesque -- Historicism versus Functionalism -- Functionalist Modernism -- Futurism Redux -- Theories and Design -- Program, Science, and History -- Beyond Architecture: Banham in LA -- 4. Renaissance Modernism / Manfredo Tafuri -- Architect and Historian -- Revising History -- The Eclipse and Rise of History -- Ideology and Utopia -- Anxiety -- Disenchantments -- 5. Postmodern Or Posthistoire?.

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