Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

A Tower of Babel To stay viable after the opening of the tunnel between England and the continent, the ferry companies operating ...

211 The project has the look of an oversized space helmet from an old-fashioned science fiction comic. In this figure—a cross be ...

4 Architecture as Critique of Modernity 97-1 97-2 97-3 97-4 97-5 97-6 97-7 97-8 97-9 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, proje ...

213 212 Office for Metropolitan Architecture, project for a Sea Terminal in Zeebrugge, section. 99 98 Office for Metropolitan Ar ...

4 Architecture as Critique of Modernity Office for Metropolitan Architecture, project for a Sea Terminal in Zeebrugge, sketch of ...

215 that one’s gaze is directed toward the endless panoramas of the sea (figure 102), while, on the other side, the central void ...

unique landmark with an unmistakable identity seen both from the sea and the land. Its shape, something like that of a pebble th ...

217 inhabitants can drift around in search of adventure and challenging atmospheres. Like Constant’s “spatiovores,” the space he ...

moment of “authenticity” that would stand out separately from the entertainment value of the whole. In that respect it conforms ...

219 alization normally has to do with a homogenization of space and an erasure of differ- ences between places, this particular ...

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“Culture” is no longer an unambiguous coherent entity implying a clearly defined re- lationship between present, past, and futur ...

A reflection on dwelling leads one to the same conclusion. According to Hei- degger—the philosopher who never faced up to “Ausch ...

223 Such anamnestic thought is tried out in his essay “Domus and the Megalopo- lis.” Lyotard describes the condition of the domu ...

to do with porosity and transparency, with adaptability and flexibility. Seen as a tran- sitive verb, dwelling takes on a more a ...

225 One thus should accept it as a given that architecture—in its most broadly con- ceived sense—forms the framework for life. B ...

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Introduction 1 For my use of the terms modernity, modernization,and modernism, I rely upon Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Me ...

Architecture Facing Modernity Epigraph: Theo van Doesburg in a letter to J. J. P. Oud, dated December 1918, quoted in Evert van ...

229 in Lyotard, L’inhumain. Causeries sur le temps [Paris: Galilée, 1988], pp. 33–44); J. F. Ly- otard, “Note on the Meaning of ...