Tracing modernity : manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city /
edited by Mari Hvattum and Christian Hermansen.
- London : Routledge, 2004.
- xii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Illustration credits - Notes on contributors - Introduction -- Part 1: Modernity - 1. Analysing modernity: some issues - 2. What modernism was: art, progress and the avant-garde - 3. Modernity and architecture - 4. Modernity and the uses of history: understanding classical architecture from Botticher to Warburg - 5. Projecting modern culture: 'aesthetic fundamentalism' and modern architecture - 6. Modernity and the question of representation -- Part 2: Architecture - 7. 'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?' - 8. 'A complete and universal collection': Gottfried Semper and the great exhibition - 9. The interior as aesthetic refuge: Edmond de Goncourt's la maison d'un artiste - 10. Timely untimeliness: architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk - 11. Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavillion - 12. The concrete memory of modernity: excerpts from a Moscow diary -- Part 3: The City - 13. Ildefonso Cerda' and modernity - 14. 'To knock fire out of men': forging modernity in Glasgow - 15. The expressionist utopia - 16. Walter Benjamin's Arcades project: a prehistory of modernity - 17. Impromptus of a great city: Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo - 18. Orpheus in Hollywood: Siegfried Kracauer's Offenbach film - Bibliography - Index.
0415305128
Modern movement (Architecture)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Architecture and society.
724.6 / TRA
Illustration credits - Notes on contributors - Introduction -- Part 1: Modernity - 1. Analysing modernity: some issues - 2. What modernism was: art, progress and the avant-garde - 3. Modernity and architecture - 4. Modernity and the uses of history: understanding classical architecture from Botticher to Warburg - 5. Projecting modern culture: 'aesthetic fundamentalism' and modern architecture - 6. Modernity and the question of representation -- Part 2: Architecture - 7. 'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?' - 8. 'A complete and universal collection': Gottfried Semper and the great exhibition - 9. The interior as aesthetic refuge: Edmond de Goncourt's la maison d'un artiste - 10. Timely untimeliness: architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk - 11. Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavillion - 12. The concrete memory of modernity: excerpts from a Moscow diary -- Part 3: The City - 13. Ildefonso Cerda' and modernity - 14. 'To knock fire out of men': forging modernity in Glasgow - 15. The expressionist utopia - 16. Walter Benjamin's Arcades project: a prehistory of modernity - 17. Impromptus of a great city: Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo - 18. Orpheus in Hollywood: Siegfried Kracauer's Offenbach film - Bibliography - Index.
0415305128
Modern movement (Architecture)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Architecture and society.
724.6 / TRA