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The historiography of modern architecture / Panayotis Tournikiotis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262285100
  • 026228510X
  • 0585190100
  • 9780585190105
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historiography of modern architecture.DDC classification:
  • 724/.6 21
LOC classification:
  • NA680 .T68 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1 The Art Historians and the Founding Genealogies of Modern Architecture 21 -- Chapter 2 The Critical Resurgence of Modern Architecture 51 -- Chapter 3 The Social Confirmation of Modern Architecture 85 -- Chapter 4 The Objectification of Modern Architecture 113 -- Chapter 5 History in Search of Time Present 145 -- Chapter 6 Architecture, Time Past, and Time Future 167 -- Chapter 7 History as the Critique of Architecture 193 -- Chapter 8 Modern Architecture and the Writing of Histories 221.
Review: "Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure." "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 The Art Historians and the Founding Genealogies of Modern Architecture 21 -- Chapter 2 The Critical Resurgence of Modern Architecture 51 -- Chapter 3 The Social Confirmation of Modern Architecture 85 -- Chapter 4 The Objectification of Modern Architecture 113 -- Chapter 5 History in Search of Time Present 145 -- Chapter 6 Architecture, Time Past, and Time Future 167 -- Chapter 7 History as the Critique of Architecture 193 -- Chapter 8 Modern Architecture and the Writing of Histories 221.

"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure." "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models."--Jacket.

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