Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen.

Main entry:

Heynen, Hilde.

Title & Author:

Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen.

Publication:

Description:

265 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index.
Architecture Facing of Modernity. Concepts of Modernity. Dwelling Fades into the Distance. The Dilemmas of Architecture -- Constructing the Modern Movement. An Architectural Avant-Garde? Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity. Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture -- Reflections in a Mirror. The Experience of Rupture. Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition. Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society. Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture. The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought -- Architecture as Critique of Modernity. Avant-Garde versus Modernism. New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia. No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Mimesis in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture.
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Summary:

"In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-a-vis modernity."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262082640 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262082648 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262581892
9780262581899

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern 20th century Influence.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Philosophie 20e siècle Influence.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern Influence.
Bouwkunst.
Moderniteit.
Filosofische aspecten.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200797
Call No.: NA680 .H4 1999
Status: Available

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