Main entry:

Czech, Hermann, author.

Title & Author:

Essays on architecture and city planning / Hermann Czech ; edited and translated by Elise Feiersinger.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2019]

Description:

251 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Eve Blau -- Introduction / Elise Feiersinger -- Otto Wagner's Vienna Metropolitan Railway -- Newer objectivity -- Angelo Mangiarotti -- Towards a new metropolis -- What will happen to the existing city? -- A competition entry -- A world refreshingly young -- On the occassion of Friedrich Ashleitner's 80th birthday -- Spatial city planning -- No need for panic -- For a change -- Mannerism and participation -- Vienna : complexity and contradiction stagnating -- Christopher Alexander and Viennese modernism -- A conceptual matrix for the current interpretation of Josef Frank -- Transformation -- Elements of urban conception -- A self-critique of modernism -- Can architecture be conceived by way of consumption?
Translated from the German.

Summary:

Very few architects are equally prolific in theory and design, and Hermann Czech is one of those few. Over the course of six decades, he has created a widely recognized body of built work while also developing a unique architectural theory based on his knowledge of philosophy and architectural history. Essays on Architecture and City Planning finally makes his influential ideas available to an English-language audience. In these essays, collected from throughout Czech's career, he analyzes mannerisms and calls attention to underestimated works of architecture. He also delves into his own ambivalent relationship to modernism. Of particular significance are the essays focused on Czech's appeal to embrace reason over style. In addition, Czech reveals his engagement with the work of Hegel, Kant, Wittgenstein, and Adorno as applied to architectural topics. Throughout, Czech showcases his commitment to developing precise terminology to advance architectural dialogues while rooting these dialogues in the larger history of ideas.

ISBN:

9783038600206 (hardbound)
3038600202 (hardbound)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
City planning Philosophy.

Added entries:

Feiersinger, Elise, editor, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306078
Call No.: BIB 251812
Status: Available