Kwinter, Sanford.

Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001.

x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation."--Jacket.

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Sant'Elia, Antonio, 1888-1916
Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architekturtheorie
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Cultuurfilosofie.
ARQUITETURA MODERNA.
Time
Space and time
Events (Philosophy)
Art and science
Architecture and science.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 217449
Cote: NA2543.S35 K8 2001
Statut: Disponible