Main entry:

Vidler, Anthony.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Writing architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neoclassical modernism : Emil Kaufmann -- Autonomy -- Neoclassicism and autonomy -- From Kant to Le Corbusier -- Structural analysis -- From Kaufmann to Johnson and Rossi -- Autonomy revived -- Mannerist modernism : Colin Rowe -- An English palladio -- Modern palladianism -- Diagramming palladio -- Mathematics -- Inventing modernism -- Mannerism -- The end of modernism -- Modernist mannerism : Stirling -- Futurist modernism : Reyner Banham -- Modern picturesque -- Historicism versus functionalism -- Functionalist modernism -- Futurism redux -- Theories and design -- Program, science, and history -- "Une architecture autre" -- Beyond architecture : Banham in LA -- Renaissance modernism : Manfredo Tafuri -- Architect and historian -- Revising history -- The eclipse and rise of history -- Ideology and utopia -- Anxiety -- Disenchantments -- Postmodern or posthistoire?
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Summary:

"Anthony Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw manifest ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the "Renaissance modernism" of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti. Vidler's investigation demonstrates the inevitable collision between history and design that pervades all modern architectural discourse - and has given rise to some of the most interesting architectural experiments of the postwar period."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780262720519 (pbk.)
0262720515 (pbk.)

Subject:

Banham, Reyner 1922-1988
Kaufmann, Emil 1891-1953
Rowe, Colin 1920-1999
Tafuri, Manfredo 1935-1994
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Historiography.
Architectural criticism Europe History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture Historiographie.
Critique d'architecture Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architectural criticism.
Architektur
Architekturgeschichtsschreibung
Architekturtheorie
Moderne
Architectual theories.
Modernism (culture)
Arquitetura moderna.
Arquitetura (historiografia)
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Writing architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256831
Call No.: BIB 187262
Copy: c. 1
Notes: manquant le 28 septembre 2012
Status: Missing

Location: Library main 279783
Call No.: BIB 187262
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available