Entrée principale:

Mertins, Detlef.

Titre et auteur:

Modernity unbound : other histories of architectural modernity / Detlef Mertins.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, ©2011.

Description:

187, [13] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Série(s):

Architecture words ; 7

Notes:
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
Glass architecture -- Anything but literal: Sigfried Giedion and the reception of Cubism in Germany -- Transparency: autonomy and relationality -- Then enticing and threatening face of prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the utopia of glass -- Walter Benjamin and the tectonic unconscious: using architecture as an optical instrument -- Same difference -- Mies's event space -- Bioconstructivisms -- Pervasive plasticity.

Résumé:

For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. In these essays he elaborates on key topics such as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference.

ISBN:

1902902890 (pbk.)
9781902902890 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophy.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)

Vedettes secondaires:

Architecture words ; 7.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main y 272387
Cote: BIB 205686
Statut: Disponible