| Description |
363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Phyllis Lambert -- Introduction: Columbia University / Bernard Tschumi -- Introduction: The Museum of Modern Art / Terence Riley -- Statement of Editorial Withdrawal / R. E. Somol -- Kirstein's Circle: Cambridge, Hartford, New York, 1927-1931 / Phyllis Lambert -- A Conversation Around the Avant-Garde / Philip Johnson and Jeffrey Kipnis -- The Avant-Garde Revisited / Colin Rowe -- Autonomy and the Avant-Garde: The Necessity of an Architectural Avant-Garde in America / Peter Eisenman -- The Road Not Taken : Alexander Dorner's Way Beyond Art / Joan Ockman -- Wild Kingdom: Frederick Kiesler's Display of the Avant-Garde / Mark Linder -- The Importance of Not Being Earnest: "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" / Paulette Singley -- The Avant-Garde Is Not at Home: Richard Neutra and the American Psychologizing of Modernity / Sylvia Lavin -- Winners and Losers: Interpreting the Mumford of The Brown Decades / Francesco Dal Co |
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System and Freedom: Sigfried Giedion, Emil Kaufmann, and the Constitution of Architectural Modernity / Detlef Mertins -- CIAM: City at the End of History / Mitchell Schwarzer -- The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness and the "Avant-Garde" in America / Sanford Kwinter -- Abstraction's Appearance (Seagram Building) / K. Michael Hays -- Eno/abling Architecture / Rem Koolhaas -- 1949 / Beatriz Colomina |
| Notes |
Proceedings of a conference in honor of Philip Johnson held Feb. 1-3, 1996 at Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Architecture, Postmodern -- Congresses.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Somol, Robert.
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| LC no. |
97028418 |
| ISBN |
1885254598 |
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