Main entry:

Hays, K. Michael.

Title & Author:

Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer / K. Michael Hays.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.

Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-329) and index.
A. Hannes Meyer and the radicalization of perception. Co-op Vitrine and the Representation of Mass Production. Contra the Bourgeois Interior: Co-op Zimmer. Co-op Building between Avant-garde and Instrumentalization: The Petersschule. The Bauhaus and the Radicalization of Building -- B. Reproduction and negation: the cognitive project of neue sachlichkeit -- C. Ludwig hilberseimer and the inscription of the paranoid subject. The Crisis of Humanism, the Dissolution of the Object. Hope beyond Chaos: Expressionism and Dadaism. Groszstadtarchitektur and Weimar-stimmung: The Construction of the Paranoid Subject -- Conclusion: posthumanism and postmodernism.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Drawing on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity. Posthumanism is an aesthetic and epistemological response to technological modernization. It embraces the antiindividualist consequences of technological progress and, in the case of Hannes Meyer, attempts to turn the perceptual effects of modernity to explicitly collectivist sociopolitical ends. As the case of Hilberseimer shows, posthumanism also harbors a contradiction--the ecstatic surrender of the subject to the very forces that assure its dissolution. Situating his analysis within the wider domain of artistic practices and the history of the subject--as well as in relation to architects such as Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier--Hays examines the ideological underpinnings of urban and architectural projects long rejected as antihumanist.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262082128
9780262082129
9780262581417
0262581418

Subject:

Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954 Criticism and interpretation.
Hilberseimer, Ludwig Criticism and interpretation
Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954 Critique et interprétation
Hilberseimer, Ludwig Critique et interprétation
Hilberseimer, Ludwig.
Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954
Functionalism (Architecture) Germany.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture) Allemagne.
Functionalism (Architecture)
Gebouwen.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Germany.
Architecture Modernism

Form/genre:

Theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72336
Call No.: ID:92-B1162
Status: Available