Architecture and modernity : a critique / Hilde Heynen.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Architecture Facing of Modernity
- Concepts of Modernity
- Dwelling Fades into the Distance
- The Dilemmas of Architecture
- Constructing the Modern Movement
- An Architectural Avant-Garde?
- Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity
- Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture
- Reflections in a Mirror
- The Experience of Rupture
- Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition
- Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society
- Building on Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture
- The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought
- Architecture as Critique of Modernity
- Avant-Garde versus Modernism
- New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia
- No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
- Mimesis in Architecture
- Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture
- Notes
- Index.