Tracing modernity manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city

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Other Authors: Hvattum, Mari, 1966- (-), Hermansen Cordua, Christian
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analysing modernity : some issues / David Frisby
  • What modernism was : art, progress and the avant-garde / Arnfinn Bø-Rygg
  • Modernity and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte
  • Modernity and the uses of history : understanding classical architecture from Bötticher to Warburg / Caroline van Eck
  • Projecting modern culture : 'aesthetic fundamentalism' and modern architecture / Gabriele Bryant
  • Modernity and the question of representation / Dalibor Vesely
  • 'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?' 'Greek' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott / Gavin Stamp
  • 'A complete and universal collection' : Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition / Mari Hvattum
  • The interior as aesthetic refuge : Edmond de Goncourt's La maison d'un artiste / Diana Periton
  • Timely untimeliness : architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Gabriele Bryant
  • Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavilion / Dagmar Motycka Weston
  • The concrete memory of modernity : excerpts from a Moscow diary / Jonathan Charley
  • Ildefonso Cerdá and modernity / Christian Hermansen
  • 'To knock fire out of men' : forging modernity in Glasgow / Juliet Kinchin
  • The expressionist utopia / Iain Boyd Whyte
  • Walter Benjamin's Arcades project : a prehistory of modernity / David Frisby
  • Impromptus of a great city : Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo / Graeme Gilloch
  • Orpheus in Hollywood : Siegfried Kracauer's Offenbach film / Graeme Gilloch.