Making it modern the history of Modernism in architecture and design
At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appear...
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New York :
Actar
cop. 2016
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991008385019708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- What modern is: introduction
- Space opens up
- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future
- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity
- At home in the brave new world
- Buildings like crystals, forms as cold ice: the styling of modernity
- Toward totality: planning for perfection
- The human form endures: contingent modernism
- Wooden ships: the modernism of complexity and contradiction
- After modernism: experimental design
- Re-modernism: design for sprawl.
