Title & Author:

Vernacular modernism : heimat, globalization, and the built environment / edited by Maiken Umbach and Bernd Hüppauf.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-251) and indexes.
Vernacular modernism / Bernd Hüppauf and Maiken Umbach -- Modernism and the vernacular at the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Mardges Bacon -- At home in the ironic imagination: the rational vernacular and spectacular texts / Michael Saler -- Spaces of the vernacular: Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and the German hometown / Bernd Hüppauf -- The Deutscher Werkbund, globalization, and the invention of modern vernaculars / Maiken Umbach -- The vernacular, modernism, and Le Corbusier / Francesco Passanti -- The vernacular, memory and architecture / Stanford Anderson -- The vernacular in place and time: relocating history in post-Soviet cities / John Czaplicka -- Critical regionalism revisited : reflections in the mediatory potential of the built form / Kenneth Frampton.

Summary:

'Vernacular Modernism' challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl.

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ISBN:

0804751544 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804751544 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804753431 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780804753432 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture.
Regionalism in architecture.
Architecture and globalization.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture vernaculaire.
Régionalisme en architecture.
Architecture et mondialisation.
Architecture 20e siècle.
vernacular architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Landschaftsgebundenes Bauen

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Umbach, Maiken.
Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 239970
Call No.: BIB 169890
Status: Available