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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism

By Peter Eisenman , Anthony Vidler

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0262720515, 9780262720519, 9781435643314
LCC
NA682.M63 V53 2008
Open Library ID
OL10238669M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
964 kB (987494 bytes)
Series
Writing Architecture
Pages
261\261
Topic
History
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

This may come down as Vidler's best critical work on Modern Architecture and the historicization of the Modern Movement. Through a critical discussion of the parcours of these four major historians [Kaufmann, Rowe, Banham and Tafuri], and by default theoreticians of modern architecture, Vidler effectively focuses on the 'faultlines' of the current architectural 'crisis', arguing, like Habermas before him, for a renewed engagement with the architectural project of Modernity, based on these critical readings that reaffirm the role of history. The conclusion may appear to some as a bit too optimistic, suggesting for instance that the work of Corbusier and Koolhaas come under the same umbrella, but this does not take away from the importance of this book as one of the few significant recent theoretical publications.

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