Critiquing the Modern in Architecture PDF
by Jaimini Mehta
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Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: "Rethinking Modernity" explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; "The Idea of Architecture" looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and "On Praxis" looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture, this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.
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- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:05/09/2017
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:178 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:05/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781134998647