Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

then acquired the connotation of what is momentary, of the transient, with its oppo- site notion no longer being a clearly defin ...

11 modernity is thus a condition that cannot be pinned down to a fixed set of attributes. It was in the nineteenth century that ...

thetic concept. Since then, the relations between the two modernities have been irreducibly hostile, but not without allowing an ...

13 view places great emphasis on the idea of the present giving form to the future, that is, on the programmatic side of moderni ...

modern, and is therefore more current than current. Logically speaking, the modern is therefore relegated to the past. Things ar ...

15 the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”^16 When it comes to form ...

creasing number of individuals in a modern society uprooted from their original social milieu, but, in addition, no succeeding m ...

17 Truth here is not a state of affairs but an occurring: the disclosure, the bringing into the open. This disclosure is never f ...

capacity for human dwelling.... When the poetic appropriately comes to light, then man dwells humanly on this earth, and then—as ...

19 modern, mobile, and unstable society. Dwelling is in the first instance associated with tradition, security, and harmony, wit ...

argues that, from a Heideggerean point of view, man “dwells” if he experiences his existence as meaningful. This experience of m ...

21 “confirms the non-existent logic of the dwelling-building-dwelling cycle and thereby dismantles a prioriany claim that assume ...

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23 terrelated and inseparable. Modernity, perhaps unwisely, departed from that idea. Alexander suggests that “the constitution o ...

Place and the organic relationship between man and house takes on a mythical char- acter. Rootedness and authenticity are presen ...

25 tic “dwelling”—a mode of dwelling that would express the cherishing of the four- fold—exists any longer. Perhaps we are deali ...

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An Architectural Avant-Garde? At one moment at least in recent architectural history an attempt was made to come up with a consi ...

fissure that is typical of modernity. The accelerated changes in traditional values and living conditions that are brought about ...

29 of cultural advance—if the price of obtaining mastery over the future is one’s own destruction, it is fully prepared to pay i ...