Preface viii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE The Art Historians and the Founding Genealogies of Modern Architecture 21 The parallel demarches of Pevsner and Kaufmann The parallel lives of the artist and the historian The paradox of theory and the diaspora of the art historians CHAPTER TWO The Critical Resurgence of Modern Architecture 51 The history lesson The path of the modern language The fundamental principles of architecture CHAPTER THREE The Social Confirmation of Modern Architecture 85 Architecture as a synthesis of visible and invisible elements Society always precedes architecture The meaning of commitment and the primacy of the general will The positive and arbitrary values of architecture CHAPTER FOUR The Objectification of Modern Architecture 113 Romanticism and reintegration: the genealogy of the future The history of architecture is the great procession of styles The aesthetics of the new architecture The International Style The new architecture and the malaise of objectivity CHAPTER FIVE History in Search of Time Present 145 From the Zeitgeist to the mainstream of history The fundamental principles of architecture CHAPTER SIX Architecture, Time Past, and Time Future 167 Architecture in the world of ideas Oecodomics and the principles of architecture The idea of historic continuity, and the path of banal architecture CHAPTER SEVEN History as the Critique of Architecture 193 The meaning of history The criticism of architecture The Brechtian poetics of architecture CHAPTER EIGHT Modern Architecture and the Writing of Histories 221 The history of modern architecture is written in the plural The history/theory/project of architecture The history of art/the history of architecture The past/present/future of architecture: difference vs. identity Modern architecture and historicity Notes 269 Bibliography 319 Index of Names 337