Tracing Modernity Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City

Name: Tracing Modernity Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City
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ISBN: 9780415305129

ISBN-10: 0415305128

ISBN-13: 9780415305129

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mari Hvattum, Christian Hermansen

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Drawing on architectural and urban history, as well as philosophy and sociology, this title traces the 'modern' project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture.

Book details

List price: $82.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Christian Hermansen is professor and head of the Institute of Architecture, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.



Introduction



Modernity



Analysing Modernity



What Moderniam was: Art, Progress and Avant-garde



Modernity and Architecture



Modernity and the Uses of History: Understanding Classical Architecture from Botticher to Warberg



Projecting Modern Culture: 'Aesthetic Fundamentalism' and Modern Architecture



Modernity and the Question of Representation



Architecture



'How is it that there is no Modern Style of Architrecture?' 'Greek' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott



'A Complete and Universal Collection': Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition



The Interior as Aesthetic Refuge: Edmond de Goncourt's La Maison d'un Artiste



Timely Untimeliness? Architectural Modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk



Le Corbusier and the Restorative Fragment at the Swiss Pavilion



The Concrete Memory of Modernity: Excerpts from a Moscow Diary



The City



Lidefonso Cerda and Modernity



'To Knock Fire out of Men' Forging Modernity in Glasgow



The Expressionist Utopia



Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project: A Prehistory of Modernity



Impromptus of a Great City: Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin Und Anderswo



Orpheus in Hollywood: Sigfried Kracauer's Offenbach Film


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