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viii Acknowledgments
2 Introduction
Architecture Facing Modernity
8 Concepts of Modernity
14 Dwelling Fades into the Distance...
18 The Dilemmas of Architecture
Constructing the Modern Movement
26 An Architectural Avant-Garde?
29 Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity
New Experiences and a New Outlook
Space, Time and Architecture:The Canon of Modern Architecture
From Avant-Garde to Canonization
43 Das Neue Frankfurt:The Search for a Unified Culture
Ideas and Intentions
The Dialectics between an Avant-Garde and a City
Das Neue Frankfurtas Avant-Garde
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Reflections in a Mirror
72 The Experience of Rupture
75 Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition
Dwelling, Culture, and Modernity
An Architecture of Differences
Discontinuous Continuity
95 Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society
Mimesis and Experience
To Brush History against the Grain
Architecture or the Physiognomy of an Era
Dwelling, Transparency, Exteriority
Architecture, Modernity, and Dwelling
118 Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch’s Criticism of Modern Architecture
Heimatas a Utopian Category
Washable Walls and Houses like Ships
Modernism as a Breaking Point within the Capitalist System
128 The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought
Architecture and Utopia
The Metropolis and Negative Thought
Dwelling and the “Places” of Modernity
History as Critique of Ideology
