Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler.
Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler.
Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
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N724.6/23
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English
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xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Foreword: [BRACKET]ING History / Peter Eisenman -- 1. Neoclassical Modernism: Emil Kaufmann -- Autonomy -- Neoclassicism and Autonomy -- From Kant to Le Corbusier -- Structural Analysis -- From Kaufmann to Johnson and Rossi -- Autonomy Revived -- 2. Mannerist Modernism: Colin Rowe -- An English Pall...
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
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Massachusetts
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c2008.
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"Anthony Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure geometrical forms and elemental co...
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Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler.
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Writing architecture series.
Writing architecture series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N724.6/23
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74VMQVJrXLjO
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9780262720519 (pbk.)
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724.6
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991000467239702626
