Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

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2 3 viii Acknowledgments 2 Introduction Architecture Facing Modernity 8 Concepts of Modernity 14 Dwelling Fades into the Distanc ...

220 Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture 226 Notes 260 Index 4 Architecture as Critique of Modernity 148 Avant-Garde versus Mod ...

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Acknowledgments This book would never have materialized without the help and encouragement of many people. When it was still in ...

Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the con ...

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This book grew out of a puzzlement I felt when studying the ideas embodied in mod- ern architecture. My perplexity had to do wit ...

Researching this topic gradually resolved my puzzlement as to the factual cir- cumstances of this absence of exchange. My fascin ...

5 3, “Reflections in a Mirror,” which discusses positions developed outside of and in opposition to the modern movement. Chapter ...

traditional architectural values such as harmony and permanence. It thus becomes clear that the modernism of the modern movement ...

7 modern architecture and its discourse provide a highly charged criticism that holds that every attempt at synthesis, every att ...

modernity, architecture’s relation to the city and the territory, its awareness of history and tradition, its involvement with t ...

Concepts of Modernity What is modernity? What does this word that plays such a crucial role in theoretical discourse actually me ...