Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

opposition between allegory and symbol on the one hand and that between bour- geois interiority and avant-garde destructiveness ...

111 The average European has not succeeded in uniting his life with tech- nology, because he has clung to the fetish of creative ...

The primal form of all dwelling is not a house but a case. This bears the imprint of its dweller. Taken to an extreme the dwelli ...

113 nology is applied here to further the ends of the dream: art nouveau explores the technical possibilities of concrete and wr ...

had animated genuine humanism. A new barbarism is therefore the only appropriate answer to the challenges of technology. While t ...

115 a “hurried contemporaneity” that is no longer recorded in ineradicable imprints but which expresses itself in changeable con ...

the term with flexibility and adaptability in the individual who dwells in abiding places and transit areas, and with a flexibil ...

117 Nor is this reference to a glass house an isolated one. The motif recurs in his essay on Karl Kraus, as it does in “Erfahrun ...

Architecture, Modernity, and Dwelling Benjamin’s high esteem for modern architecture has to do above all with the metaphorical q ...

119 It is unquestionably the case that Benjamin hoped for a revolutionary “reversal” (Um- schlag) that would transform the life ...

Leipzig. The regime there was initially favorably disposed toward him, but after some time the tide turned and Bloch was forbidd ...

121 riety, or simply to orientate it in that direction, would be like trying to reduce electric- ity to the amber from which it ...

architecture, with all its flamboyance and dynamism, with its organic figures that in- tertwine as they strive upward, it is the ...

123 Historically speaking, it was in the applied arts, the products of which were meant for the court or the church, that there ...

It goes without saying that communist functionalism is not synony- mous with a version of late capitalist functionalism minus th ...

125 When architecture develops without any consideration of the social conditions within which it operates, it is inevitable tha ...

Modernism as a Breaking Point within the Capitalist System In using the image of the Stadtkrone, Bloch is clearly alluding to th ...

127 cracks in this surface in order to expose the void. Lukács’s charge that expression- ism is decadent is in a sense correct. ...

anything in functionalism that might be considered suspect by capitalism, let alone oppositional: the New Objectivity fitted in ...

129 of life was the aim of Bloch’s utopian vision. Since every form of being is fundamen- tally incomplete, this notion of fulln ...