Entrée principale:

Mehta, Jaimini, author.

Titre et auteur:

Critiquing the modern in architecture / Jaimini Mehta.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xviii, 160 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking modernity. Towards a purposeful disequilibrium -- A fool's paradise -- Interrogative scholarship -- Contingent criticality -- The idea of architecture. Architecture and the idea of agreement -- Space of Mr. Giedion -- Architecture as co-making -- Vaastu and the enfolding order -- On praxis. Le Corbusier -- polemical, poetical and existential -- Analogues of architecture -- Romaldo Giurgola. The reluctant master -- The Vienna spring.

Résumé:

"Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: "Rethinking Modernity" explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; "The Idea of Architecture" looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and "On Praxis" looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture, this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781138690790 (hardcover)
1138690791 (hardcover)
9781138690806 (paperback)
1138690805 (paperback)
(master electronic book)
9781315536729
(mobi/kindle)
9781134998784

Sujet:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Modern movement (Architecture)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 299674
Cote: BIB 245826
Statut: Disponible