| Description |
280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Architecture Facing of Modernity. Concepts of Modernity. Dwelling Fades into the Distance. The Dilemmas of Architecture -- Constructing the Modern Movement. An Architectural Avant-Garde? Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity. Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture -- Reflections in a Mirror. The Experience of Rupture. Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition. Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society. Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture. The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought -- Architecture as Critique of Modernity. Avant-Garde versus Modernism. New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia. No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Mimesis in Architecture -- Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture |
| Summary |
"In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-a-vis modernity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-259) and index |
| Subject |
Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century -- Influence.
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Modernity (Art)
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| ISBN |
0262581892 (paperback) |
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0262082640 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780262581899 (paperback) |
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