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Vernacular modernism : heimat, globalization, and the built environment / edited by Maiken Umbach and Bernd Hüppauf.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.Description: x, 265 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0804753431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.9045 VER
Contents:
Vernacular modernism / Bernd Huppauf and Maiken Umbach -- 1. Modernism and the vernacular at the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Mardges Bacon -- 2. At home in the ironic imagination: the rational vernacular and spectacular texts / Michael Saler -- 3. Spaces of the vernacular: Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and the German hometown / Bernd Huppauf -- 4. The Deutscher Werkbund , globalization, and the invention of modern vernaculars / Maiken Umbach -- 5. The vernacular, modernism, and Le Corbusier / Francesco Passanti -- 6. The vernacular, memory and architecture / Stanford Anderson -- 7. The vernacular in place and time: relocating history in post-Soviet cities / John Czaplicka -- 8. Critical regionalism revisited : reflections in the mediatory potential of the built form / Kenneth Frampton.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-251) and indexes.

Vernacular modernism / Bernd Huppauf and Maiken Umbach -- 1. Modernism and the vernacular at the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Mardges Bacon -- 2. At home in the ironic imagination: the rational vernacular and spectacular texts / Michael Saler -- 3. Spaces of the vernacular: Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and the German hometown / Bernd Huppauf -- 4. The Deutscher Werkbund , globalization, and the invention of modern vernaculars / Maiken Umbach -- 5. The vernacular, modernism, and Le Corbusier / Francesco Passanti -- 6. The vernacular, memory and architecture / Stanford Anderson -- 7. The vernacular in place and time: relocating history in post-Soviet cities / John Czaplicka -- 8. Critical regionalism revisited : reflections in the mediatory potential of the built form / Kenneth Frampton.