Critiquing the modern in architecture
Mehta, Jaimini
Critiquing the modern in architecture - New York Routledge 2018 - xviii,160p.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Architecture
Part One: Rethinking modernity
1. Towards a Purposeful Disequilibrium
2. A Fool’s Paradise: A Critical Evaluation of the Sources of Post-Modern Architecture
3. Interrogative Scholarship: Theorizing the Agenda for Post-Rational Architecture
4. Contingent Criticality
Part Two: The Idea of Architecture
5. Architecture and the Idea of Agreement 6. The Space of Mr. Giedion
7. Architecture as Co-Making
8. Vaastu and the Enfolding Order
Part Three: On Praxis
9. Le Corbusier: Polemical, Poetical and Existential
10. Analogues of Architecture
11. Romaldo Giurgola: The Reluctant Master
12. The Vienna Spring
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
9781138690806
724.6 / MEH
Critiquing the modern in architecture - New York Routledge 2018 - xviii,160p.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Architecture
Part One: Rethinking modernity
1. Towards a Purposeful Disequilibrium
2. A Fool’s Paradise: A Critical Evaluation of the Sources of Post-Modern Architecture
3. Interrogative Scholarship: Theorizing the Agenda for Post-Rational Architecture
4. Contingent Criticality
Part Two: The Idea of Architecture
5. Architecture and the Idea of Agreement 6. The Space of Mr. Giedion
7. Architecture as Co-Making
8. Vaastu and the Enfolding Order
Part Three: On Praxis
9. Le Corbusier: Polemical, Poetical and Existential
10. Analogues of Architecture
11. Romaldo Giurgola: The Reluctant Master
12. The Vienna Spring
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
9781138690806
724.6 / MEH