Critiquing the modern in architecture

By:

Mehta, Jaimini

Publication details: New York Routledge 2018Description: xviii,160pISBN:

9781138690806

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

724.6 MEH

Contents:

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

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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

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